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
        4·
        1 year 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
        2·
        1 year ago

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

        • demonsword@lemmy.world
          2·
          1 year 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
            2·
            1 year 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
              1·
              1 year 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
        2·
        1 year 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.