The beauty is that you never fully install the Gentoo you want. It's about the journey and the friends we make along the way, not the destination.
How does one install friends (i want to compile them first)
emerge from your parents' basement
(challenge level: impossible)
Friends are a bloatware.
"Yes, but after you do, it'll be blazing fast in the twenty minutes before you'll have to recompile due to software updates."
"So, you're saying that it would have been really efficient if all my eight cores weren't constantly pegged building software?"
"...Uh, yes."
"And that optimizing software for the native architecture could have enabled power savings, if those machines weren't all burning oceans of kilowatt hours building the same software over and over again redundantly?"
"Ah..."
I wonder what CPU performance you would need so that it is compiling all the time given: average package release rate and average compile time of the most commonly installed ones.
Well, it'd be highly contingent on what set of packages one has installed, but it's an interesting question.
Some non-Gentoo distros ship CPU-optimized builds anyway, so even that is quite questionable.
I did Gentoo in my 20s when all I could afford was garbage computers. I enjoyed the experience โ whether it did or not, it made me feel like I was getting the most out of whatever I had, and I learned SO much about Linux.
Agreed. I blew up. Multiple Gentoo installs, but by the time I stopped using it, I could recover from any of my mistakes. I still miss portage but I actually use my linux machines now instead them being the project themselves :p. I'm a boring Debian boy now...
Run a Gentoo Prefix maybe? You get portage and can install customized packages like one does, without risking the system.
I'm guessing this guy is still performing the demonstration tutorial that he started in 1999
Sorry, everytime I see the gentoo logo, I see this:
Who's that pokemon!?!
From Subnautica?
... Subnautica has pokemon?
Ah fuck, I've read your comment so now the Nintendo lawyers are knocking on my door
That's an optimistic timeframe if you want to use kde and firefox.
Is that Techmoan?
Yes (his name is Matt, BTW).
Fun fact: he has no sense of smell/taste.
That's perfect for british food. He won the lottery there...
My god. The bets you could win with people.
"Okay, so I'm going to eat this - what was in it again? Durian, sardines, kimchee, and muenster cheese salad? Let's add some onion for crunch and I'm in."
What is gentoo?
A Hannah Montana Linux wannabe.
oh lol. so I installed Gentoo in 2007 or so on an AMD K6. I set the architecture to 686. Cause it's a K6 right?
build failed after a day of compiling. tried again and the build failed again. finally I read the docs and there's an innocuous like saying all K6s are 586.
What a waste. switched to Debian after some 3y of Gentoo. switched to arch after 10y of Debian. been on arch 6y now...
โI use arch, btwโ classic
in my defense, Gentoo was harder to install than arch...
To be expected, difficulty of Arch installation was always overblown, and Gentoo doesn't have an installer either, but you need to handle stage tarballs while in Arch, you just used pacman
Why does this image have a picture of Techmoan on it? I'm sure he'd love to know he's become a meme posterboy
Aha I did a double take for the same reason. Not just techmoan but a really old photo of him too.
How to install gentoo in only 3 weeks
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