Please greentext your gentoo install experience might fall for the meme
>installed gentoo
>regretted
>broke pc
>install gentoo
>move on
>>55286019
>installed gentoo
>it fucking sucks
>back to windows for good
>>55286268
How is it?
>>55286283
Like any other linux based OS with slightly better package management and additional compile times.
>emerge genkernel
>>55286019
>emerge --sync
>~70MB
>10 fucking minutes
>dropped
my 1Mb bandwidth is not happy with that, me neither
>>55286019
>wanted to install gentoo
>installed Arch Linux instead
>pacman, pacstrap and makepkg are making my life a lot easier
>enjoy my cozy desktop
>>55286336
Or just use git instead.* Running emerge --sync
>>> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/usr/portage'...
/usr/bin/git pull
remote: Counting objects: 137, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (56/56), done.
remote: Total 137 (delta 94), reused 120 (delta 77), pack-reused 0
Receiving objects: 100% (137/137), 33.09 KiB | 0 bytes/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (94/94), completed with 54 local objects.
From https://github.com/gentoo-mirror/gentoo
8733142..9e78c04 master -> origin/master
Updating 8733142..9e78c04
>>55286317
emerge libcaca
>installed gentoo
>had to learn a programming language to customize the window manager
>screen tearing everywhere
>half hour to install adobe flash
>another half hour to get it to work
>snapped out of it and installed Windows so I could use my computer again
>sudo apt-get install gentoo
>>55286366
How?
>>55286019
>installed gentoo on my old laptop
>had to type blind to install a special driver for the screen
>trackpad had 2 possible states, all the way on the left of the screen and all the way on the right
>had to reinstall wireless drivers every time I shut down
>area right under where I put my right hand to type got too hot to touch
>closing the lid would not sleep the computer but would cause the keyboard to stop responding
>that included the power button
>>55286019
What anime is that?
>install gentoo on laptop
>wasted an entire day installing
?????
>move to slackware
>everything just werks
never again
anyone else here for this?
hope it's archived or screencapped somewhere
>>55286019
> considered installing gentoo
> didn't
fedora is linux, but I didn't have to do the things an installer script usually does manually to run it
same with arch. why not just make an installer?
bad devs?
>>55286019
> install gentoo
> follow the handbook closely, use kde 5 as desktop environment, build kernel with genkernel because I'm not a minimalistic autist
> takes a bit of time to compile but everything works immediately
> now have something comparable to arch linux regarding up-to-dateness, but much more customizable and with programs actually taking advantage of x86 instructions newer than a decade ago
>start
>cmd
>enter
>install gentoo
>nothing happens
>distro hop for years
>Install Gentoo
>Holy shit this OS is amazing
>>55286019
With right use flags the compilation can take days!
>>55288098
Link?
>>55288109
the minimal install cd iso doesn't even have efi support, the devs don't focus on the installation media (and focus on more important things). they removed the installer years ago because it was a bitch to support or something.
<something something elitists something installer>
>>55288062
Fanart of lapis lazuli from Steven universe, I think.
>>55286019
>4 days to install; each day at least 4-8 hours on it
>On the 3rd day, installed. Forgot to install network card
>Took 5 hours to fix
>4th day installed WM
Worth it.
>first try in a vm
>system does not boot after install
>forget for a month or two
>second try in a vm
>get it working, mess around with it, find it nice
>third try, old computer (old amd 2600+ with 512mb)
>go full rice with fine tuned use flags and kernel
>works like a charm, way better than other distros
>in fact is was the only distro where mplayer ran smoothly playing dvds and sd material, so I left at the living room as an htpc for some time
>fourth try, at college
>get tired of arch, remember that good gentoo experience
>spend a whole weekend installing it at my t400
>used it for the last two years of college, even did my final year project with it
It was a good experience learning and using it. I'd leave emerge world running in class or running overnight for big packages.
It's not really difficult to maintain it, yet it is somewhat time consuming. Back at college I had time to emerge world daily and fix stuff whenever a build failed, but if you are on ~arch and forget about updating it for a month it can be really painful.
Is this why, after I finished college and the laptop was demoted to a secondary computer, I went back to Debian, which as today I keep using.
Today I do sys/netadmin and it's all Centos with some specific stuff in Ubuntu Server, and my Gentoo experience helps a lot, yet using it in production would be dumb. If some day for whatever reason I want to make an internal distro, I'll definetely use Gentoo as a base, but that's it.
But yet using Gentoo it's a great way to learn about Linux/Unix in general. Have some time and want to learn? Install Gentoo. Yes, seriously.
>>55288688
>spend a whole weekend installing it at my t400
I'll agree that it's a good learning experience, but fuck me I do not want to waste a weekend just trying to get linux installed when there are much simpler options.
>>55288836
Most of the time is reading the handbook, forums, etc. I also compiled the kernel like 4 or 5 times to get everything right and fine tuned.
If you know what you're doing you could have it up and running in a couple hours. Maybe even less if you use genkernel, but that misses the point.
>>55286019
>install gentoo
>realize it's shit and that I fell for the meme
>format
>install win10 Enterprise LTSB instead
>>55288098
bump
>>55286019
>install gentoo
>pc brick
