If you go with minimal stage3 route, the installation is pretty much the same, especially because Gentoo offers binary kernel as well (Funtoo uses Debian one).
If you decide for GNOME stage3 on Funtoo, then you can have running GNOME desktop system in approx. half an hour. Funtoo install manual is pretty much straight-forward.
Just pay attention for the Grub install, especially if you use EFI and/or LVM. Then these things should be of help:
Hey there! I know I'm quite late on this but: https://www.funtoo.org/KDE_Plasma_5 The recommended flavor is Desktop. After that you'll need to do a world update, emerge X, and then add the kde-plasma-5 mix-in. Once that's done you'll do another world update and emerge the plasma-meta package (you can do this in one go).
If you haven't already I highly recommend joining the Discord server: https://discord.gg/BNUSpUU as this sub is fairly quiet.
Thanks for the link to "upstream" GenToo .
For the profiles , there are two references to that term :
https://www.funtoo.org/Funtoo_Profiles
&
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Profile_%28Portage%29
I read over the "Install" pages :
https://www.funtoo.org/Install/Introduction
& the "stage#3" instruction :
https://www.funtoo.org/Install/Download_and_Extract_Stage3
led me to the "Stage3" that only lists Gnome as a desktop
.
? Are you saying that following those instructions
and installing Gnome prior to installing Cinnamon
(after getting the OS up and running)
will not have any systemd in the OS ?