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I would use Gentoo if the install process didn't filter me a year ago, as I'm a big fan of the concept of USE flags. The good thing is that you can use the Gentoo wiki when running Alpine and vice-versa to an extent, as they both use OpenRC.
Another thing of note is that Alpine's use of BusyBox replaces the GNU coreutils seen in many other Linux distros such as Gentoo, turning Alpine from GNU/Linux into something along the lines of Linux/Linux. Thus, Alpine is more BSD-like than Gentoo; I see this as a positive, as I would be using OpenBSD if not for the lack of hardware and software support present.
Additionally, I enjoy that the user can switch from stable to bleeding edge just by changing three lines in their repositories file. I'm unsure if Gentoo has anything like this, and my only critique of the system is that you have to go all-in on bleeding edge for all of your packages unless you want to break your install.
The overarching point is that I would have NEVER learned this much about Linux if I gave up on Alpine like I did with Gentoo. Maybe I'll try again once I get too comfy, but for now, OpenRC has werked just fine for me.