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.

      • boonhet@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        Do we have some kind of a remindme bot here? I’m away from home for another week and this is my desktop.

      • projectmoon@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        There is at least a few of us. My gaming desktop, personal laptop, and work laptop are all running Gentoo!

        • demonsword@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          I remember trying to install gentoo back in 2007… gave up after 3h of endless compiling and came back running to debian

          • projectmoon@lemm.ee
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            2 years ago

            It’s very different now. Much more smooth. Of course you still configure the system manually. But following the handbook will get you a working system pretty easily.

            • demonsword@lemmy.world
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              2 years ago

              oh, I don’t doubt that, all distros I’ve come across have come a long way since I’ve began using linux

      • boonhet@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        Running Kingdom Come: Deliverance while doing a world update in Portage. Have at it!

        Now why is there an EA launcher icon in the taskbar? Well, I was going to take a screenshot of Mass Effect LE, but EA launcher decided not to cooperate with me, probably a Proton update or something (KC:D was also having a brand new crash till I switched over to Experimental). I was too lazy to look up the process ID and kill it because I’m going to reboot when I update my kernel anyway.

  • REdOG@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    My first Gentoo install took a weekend and about a week later I had a desktop. KDE took me like 2 days to compile. p3 800mhz Toshiba with maybe 256MB RAM I forget actually…version was 1.2 alpha I wrote 1.too on the CD

    • H2207@lemmy.worldOP
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      2 years 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.

  • spagnod@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    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…