#gentoo linux

[man-pages-official]

compiling the gentoo kernel, take 2, currently underway

[sway-official]

It's been a long day but I just installed Gentoo Linux!! Tons of fun to follow, hopefully (no unixporn yet I don't have a graphical environment or even like. a user set up yet)

[michiko420]

hi guys im so sorry i have been absent these past days oopsies!!

im currently installing gentoo for the THIRD TIME.

yes its taking me this long bc first time i forgot to change into the home directory while chrooting but everything else was okay, the SECOND time i got everything correctly even xfce and wpa_supplicant but i forgot networkmanager and now im doing everything correctly and even better and faster I SWEAR TO GOD IF I HAVE TO REINSTALL GENTOO FOR THE FOURTH TIME IM GOING TO BE SEVERELY MAD.

tldr: i use gentoo btw

pls expect me to be back either today or tomorrow. Srry for taking this long 💔💔💔💔

[hearts01]

sometimes using nixos feels like microdosing gentoo

[distrochooser]

best distro for an old, slow laptop running windows 8? already tried mint and its a bit slow itself

That's a great question, but it's missing a couple of key details. First of all, what flavor of mint were you using? If you were using cinnamon, I recommend the xfce variant. If you are willing to give it a shot, a WM may just be a great choice. My personal favorite is bspwm. In terms of lightweight distros, Arch and Gentoo are great choices, despite my problems with them in the past.

[strongest-soldier-jyl]

gentoo goes crazy until you have to package anything that isn't a C, C++, or Rust project frfr

[mpd-official]

so i spent last week "live"-converting my desktop from void to gentoo. this was easier said than done, but still easier than when i live converted my laptop from nixos to gentoo.

the major thing that made it easier was that my storage scheme was already using ZFS, which meant that I could do the installation without a live CD and just make a new zvol to hold the new gentoo rootfs. i was able to mostly skip the gentoo handbook and only do the following steps:

extract stage3

generate /etc/fstab for the non-zfs partitions (boot filesystem and my nas)

kernel configuration

the kernel configuration was what fucked me over when i first tried to reboot, since I hadn't re-generated the initramfs after building the ZFS kernel modules. I re-chrooted in from my void install and regenerated it. since then it's worked like a charm.

separating /home from / is great if you're a chronic distrohopper, and i recommend ZFS to make it even easier

[canisvesperus]

Gentoo Linux Sollux vs macOS Eridan