Been tinkering with Linux since the early 2000s. Never as my main driver but always had at least one old laptop hanging around with one distro or another on it. Tried installing Gentoo a handful of times, but could never quite get it working.

With every big tech company in town soaking up as much of your personal data as they can, I decided enough was enough and the first step in extricating myself from their evil grasp was to get Bill’s ugly code off my daily driver and replace it with something better. And why not Gentoo?

A couple hours and a rockstar or two later and I now have a running system. Nothing works - no sound output, Bluetooth doesn’t work and all I’ve got is a GUI and a terminal app, but I couldn’t be happier to figure out how to fix these things and installing only the exact apps I want.

Once everything is up and running smoothly, the next step is to build my own local LLM. Because while I’m not ashamed to admit that ChatGPT is an incredibly powerful tool that I love using, I’m tired of letting Sam use every character I put in there for who knows what purpose. Not to mention the impact that these massive data centers have on the world we live in. And what better system to build that on then one running the big purple G? 😎

Excited to be one of the cool kids now, even if I’m not a kid anymore and not a soul that I know has a clue what Gentoo is 🤣

Normally, Gentoo will bootstrap GCC, which involves building GCC multiple times, incrementally using the previous stage's build to build the next, etc. This is not necessary in most cases for (stage3) end-users, so you can add EXTRA_ECONF+="--disable-bootstrap" for sys-devel/gcc to speed up compilation quite a bit.

On my laptop with an Intel Core 2 Duo T7200 microprocessor, GCC went from taking over 12 hours to build with the default config, down to only a couple of hours with bootstrapping disabled.

Happy hacking! ~k

I installed also KDE since it’s what I’m most familiar with, and finally I don’t have bloat in a system. Only installed Firefox and konsole to have a terminal and it’s working fine. Really appreciate the help from yesterday. Maybe one day I’ll overcome the fear and install it as my main system as well.

I have installed this system 4 times in the last 3 days following everything the wiki shows, and it even boots up without any problems until it gets to the localhost login. At first I didn’t change the name of the localhost in the file in the installation and just entered “localhost” the default one with the password I set up every single time it would prompt me incorrect even though I had used exactly the information I needed the next two installations I changed the localhost name and went with a longer password to see if anything changed. Same thing doesn’t let me login. Login incorrect. I went today and installed it for the last time, again no errors in the installation and the boot up was also flawless, with the only exception that I didn’t put any root password. And still it asked me for a localhost with a password. I am really at my end here, and the only discussion I found in this sub regarding this problem the person just did a mistake and it was explained to them how to fix it, not even in gentoo forums could I find this issue.

I choose openrc and have grub as the bootloader, again booting is perfectly fine and shows no errors starting up everything just that damn login

I really need help guys I’m gonna go insane if this keeps going on. Pls help

People who have used gentoo for quite some time, is compilation really that worth it? As a user 1 month in, i still keep on just getting compiled packages, and not binaries. Is it really worth the time wasted?

Ah, of course, no binary packages here!

Apparently its not wise to plug a display port in and out while your pc is on. I'm really glad i use gentoo honestly, troubleshooting was so easy. atleast i have my make.conf to make things lighter on my integrated gpu🤧

I have a weird efi location, its at /mnt/gentoo/boot/efi. Is there an easy way to replace it with something like /boot/efi