Sup Forumsuys I'm going to switch to gentoo. Any tips, is like arch with the Wiki for installation?

Sup Forumsuys I'm going to switch to gentoo. Any tips, is like arch with the Wiki for installation?

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install gentoo

Do people actually use this or is it just a meme?

it's a pretty good way to learn Linux, I haven't used it in like 10 years though.

Overall it was actually important that I did that stage 1 install when I was 14. It was pretty helpful for my long-term career.

compiling gcc and firefox sucks
they take longer than the kernel desu

do it faggot i dare you i double dare you.

install gentoo

I tried it once, but there was too much compiling for me.

liar

www-client/firefox
merge time: 14 minutes and 35 seconds.

sys-devel/gcc
merge time: 21 minutes and 12 seconds.

Nigger nigger cattle, install TempleOS

can I have your stuff?

gee, I have to wait 21 min to compile shit that usually takes ~30 sec to install on other distro
no tnx

Not lying. I a professional sysadmin, who specializes in Linux. I've worked at hosting provider, a financial institution and a medical research institute.

Gentoo forces you to learn a lot of fundamental shit that becomes very useful when troubleshooting stuff. It's very educational.

the one that takes the longest, by a long shot, is:
www-client/chromium
merge time: 2 hours, 1 minute and 26 seconds.
and the second longest is
dev-qt/qtwebengine
merge time: 38 minutes and 44 seconds.
everything else takes less than 5minutes.

you mean like binpkg? I've customized CFLAGS.
Yeah but I can -Use 5GB of bloat the other distros force on you.

how do you view merge time?

Wow, gee, you save 5 GB!!! Completely significant in the age of cheap 1TB+ HDDs!! How can I install gentoo already?

Are there any benchmarks that show how much more efficient gentoo can be compared to a normal distro like Ubuntu?

app-portage/genlop

This is a good question, I too wonder about this.

I've been using it for about 4 months on my main rig, about to install it on a second older PC. I actually like it but I can see where people would have problems with it

Same, I love it but can't bring myself to recommend it to anyone that isn't somewhere on the spectrum

You don't have libreoffice?

oh you're right, forgot about that one
app-office/libreoffice
merge time: 42 minutes and 47 seconds.

Install Gentoo, it'll fix Gentoo.

I feel as if getting arch to run on openrc is easier and faster then installing gentoo is this true Sup Forums?

Be sure to use parallel compilation so that you won't spend whole day building the basic. It is in Wiki so you might want to look into it.

actually u wont learn shit by installing linux u just copy paste some shit.

Good thing that back when I installed it I had to repeat the installation, over and over, without a smart phone, without a second computer, without internet (because the nforce2 motherboard has special nvidia NIC drivers), and take notes by paper dual booting back and forth between Windows.

Kids these days...

is there a decent writeup anywhere for partitioning with encrypted root and encrypted swap?

its the only thing stopping me from flushing arch and going to gentoo

True, it's something someone has to come to on their own

actually i'm 35 and I do everything on linux, some newfags came our company to job applications and they think they know some shit about linux by installing it.

Okay grandpa we get it don't forget your meds

Gentoo is like Arch, except you have to enter a million commands just to change your wallpaper

You are a moron.

fight me faggot

linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/

You are a moron.

Gentoo install steps are basically the same as arch. Just wait on compile time. If you are doing a manual install might as well go ALL the way.

This. I think it's a great distro, but it really requires a passion for wanting your system exactly how you like it. Anyone else should probably stick with your debians and such.

This may be true for arch but the gentoo handbook actually explains the commands you run.

The Gentoo wiki has an entry on it. wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Full_Disk_Encryption_From_Scratch_Simplified

it all comes down to priority, whether want all the bloat or a clean distro that you can actually configure by spending a few more hours.

Sure, why would anybody learn something about their OS if they install it manually while reading the documentation?

Yes, although I prefer Source Mage

Gentoo is a dark souls of linux distros.

I've been using it since 2004. It's a good Linux distro.

Eh, you think it's hard? it's not really, and doesn't require very much user interaction to maintain either.

If your computer is a relative potato it will crunch updates for a while, but you can doodle dicks or shitpost here or watch porn or listen to audiobooks or whatever it is that you do while it does that.

If it's a modern Sup Forumsaymen PC it'll generally crunch that shit really rather fast, too.

Use Slackware.

Well. My instalation of gentoo ends at trying to unpack tarball or whatever is it called. It barfs out lack of space error after unpacking 50% of files. Even when i gave like 2 gb ram and 100 gb disk size to my WM. And root partition has like 30 gb.

Cant just gentoo have a sort of graphical install where i hust set up partitions, choose some de/additional software and do most of job for me... like arch anywhere when it comes to install arch?

Use a system rescue CD instead of the gentoo install media. The rescue CD has better x support.
Configure a ram disk for /tmp and do your compile there.

I used Slackware before I used Gentoo because Slackware used to be the Gentoo of 2003.

The Ubuntu of 2003 was Mandrake.

>spending cycles on compiling everything
>not constantly mining in the background

Calculate linux, thoughts?

Good. No complaints. It's gentoo for the lazy.