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I successfully installed Gentoo for the first time today! (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Screenshot of QEMU VM showing an ASCII Gentoo Logo + system info

I followed Mental Outlaw's 2019 guide and followed the official handbook to get up-to-date instructions and tailored instructions for my system, the process took about 4 hours however I did go out for a nice walk while my kernel was compiling. Overall I enjoyed the process and learnt a lot about the Linux kernel while doing it.

I'm planning on installing it to my hardware soon, this was to get a feel for the process in a non-destructive way.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Hehe... I installed Gentoo last year and I was thrown in the deepest of deep ends after having to set up a custom initramfs for my LUKS setup... took about a week to get it running...

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I did it once on the first intel MacBook. It compiled for like 14 hours.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well done! Not too hard?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

No it wasn't bad actually with the hand-holding a long the way, I mainly followed the handbook but if I didn't understand anything then I went back to the MO video to see what he did. Compiling from source is definitely what took the longest but that's to be expected with Gentoo. The overall install process felt like a bit more involved Arch install.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (6 children)

What is the value proposition of Gentoo over, say, something like NixOS?

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