Is that Techmoan?
I might pay to watch Techmoan install Gentoo. (I am a big fan. Loved his dashcam reviews.)
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.”
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…
A K6 is just a fast Pentium I, it’s not a Pentium II equivalent.
“I use arch, btw” classic
in my defense, Gentoo was harder to install than arch…
I installed Gentoo 2004.3 under the watchful eye of a Gentoo developer. (Gentoo did come in handy because I was using amd64 Opterons before most binary distributions had 64-bit packages.) It also took me about 3 years to get tired of rebuilding
world“continuously”. I similarly switch to Debian on 2007-11 and I’m writing this from that installation, just migrated across several generations of hardware.honestly I loved Debian stable. unfortunately I got new hardware, and Debian stable didn’t support it. I hacked by on a combination of testing and backports for a bit. but it finally got too much and I made the switch…
Yeah, I run a mixed (unsupported) system from time to time for hw support, but testing requires a lot for admin time than stable does, so I can certainly see that moving to something more malleable than stable. Arguably that’s what I’m doing while my system is mixed, since it’s not (supported) Debian.
What is gentoo?
A Hannah Montana Linux wannabe.
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.
Love him but Tech Tangents would be more appropriate here lol. That dude loves wasting time.
How to install gentoo in only 3 weeks
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)
Friends are a bloatware.
Reminder: you can say shit on the Internet.
Shit, you can‽
emergefrom your parents’ basement(challenge level: impossible)
Or it is about the friends you loose after you have successfully installed Gentoo and now maintaining it.
Fun aside: I used Gentoo for more than a decade (15 years?, idk). Since I am back on Debian stable, I don’t feel like I am missing out on stuff I want to try, because I don’t have to wait or solve useflag issues anymore. I still think, Gentoo is a solid distro, but I have other hobbies, too. If it were my sole job to maintain a Gentoo system I would do it. But I don’t want to deal with it anymore in my spare time.
I have Gentoo, it just works, compiling is pretty quick
I’m confused. I also have many hobbies. That’s what compile time is for–big compiles are started just before bed time. Gentoo stays out of your way and gives you more freedom. I concede that I may just be lucky at not having any useflag issues in many years. But I also learned a lot from the first few I stumbled into. It’s this quality of learning I can’t find in any other distro.
I love all non-windows OS tho
Don’t forget about the anger and rage you develop too.
Frustration is a natural part of learning; ignorance is bliss
“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…”
Blazing fast, as in, a full 1 to 3% faster than a generic build.
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 — 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.
I wanted to try Gentoo to learn more about Linux and compiling.
But that fucking distro just works, and compiling is so automatic I’m done in one command!
I feel betrayed, but also very satisfied by the distro.
Fuck binary blobs.
Sadly, it’s Systemd or Openrc only.
Edit: though there was a s6 custom repo i think, last i looked?
I don’t know why you got downvoted. This project has been my default go to for installing Gentoo for a while now.
I’m guessing this guy is still performing the demonstration tutorial that he started in 1999
Damn, I’m not sure I have the stamina for 3 weeks of that.
