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It's not much, but I've made my first working Gentoo install! (files.catbox.moe)
submitted 2 years ago by 12510198 to c/gentoo@reddthat.com
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It took about 23 hours to get it booted under its own power using a binary kernel. And on the 4th day (today) I've managed to get a custom kernel working. Gentoo has been very fun to use and to customize, and it's very fast and responsive, even on my old hardware and with a hard disk, browsing heavy webpages with Librewolf is no problem at all. I've been sleeping on Gentoo for WAY to long.

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[-] Deebster@programming.dev 5 points 2 years ago

My first Gentoo install was also because it was an ageing laptop that was too slow for anything else. Luckily it wasn't my only machine, since the install times for some things were quite long.

[-] circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 years ago

Sweet! Been looking into Gentoo myself.

[-] leaky_shower_thought@feddit.nl 4 points 2 years ago

congrats! i find the knobs a cool way gentoo made to define your setup.

have fun with the configs!

[-] pastermil@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 years ago

Welcome to the club!

[-] the_citizen@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Congratulations, let's compile qtwebengine!

[-] LOLseas@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I've tried and failed in the past to get Gentoo booted. How long could it take to compile on modern hardware, like with a 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 5950x, an NVME drive, and loads of detotated WAM? I'm flirting with the idea of trying once again. My concern is I don't have another machine to fallback to, save my phone.

this post was submitted on 30 Jul 2024
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