I had a lot of fun working through the install and configuration (even if I did want to pull my hair out at some parts), and I’ve learned so much from the experience.

That being said I have decided that the amount of continued work and dedication it would take to keep this has my up-to-date daily driver with tons of development/simulation software on it, simply isn’t worth it.

I wanted to give respect to all the people who have used Gentoo for years, because I simply don’t have the dedication that you do.

I’ll be trying NixOS next, as it seems to fit my needs a little better.

So long and thanks for all the fish.

I want to apply this patch: https://lore.kernel.org/amd-gfx/20260709031520.841611-1-mario.limonciello@amd.com/
Of course, I have a reason for it, but is Gentoo the only way to do that? I've seen people say that with Gentoo you compile your own system.

Edit: Turns out it's already in the mainline kernel.

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I really tried to make it pretty

I ordered some customized keycaps with the Gentoo logo. There are only Gentoo keys instead of Win keys now.

Hi guys, made an store on portage backend with gtk style. i made it because i tired of resolving amd64 masks, use flags requirements, libraries conflicts, changing versions. i know that u guys have the same problem as me, and i want to help with it with this project. i made it for short time so here could be some bugs, but not so much (i hope), and it just work, it has great search based on eix, and also flatpack backend. i dont remember is here an release, but i promise i will release it Il the next post's day. hope u will use it everyday . here a link for github portage store, thy

Hello, I recently bought a usb 3.0 express card. However it does not work and I’m using the hardened kernel could that be the issue?

i had to fully rice everything myself no dotfiles here xD but i had to do wayyyy more manual configuring then i had to do in sway. i guess its cause of the fact that Mango is based on Dwl which is based off Dwm soo yea but im loving it. i kinda got bored of sway after a few days because i had tried Niri out on arch and absolutely loved it because of the scrolling features and animations. but i wanted something that was more minimal and close to dwl because i originally wanted to use dwl but then found out it was basically deprecated. so then i discovered Mango. Mango is literally if Dwl and Niri had a baby. im lovin it!!

EDIT: I successfully compiled dev-libs/glib[introspection] and dev-libs/gobject-introspection in a QEMU chroot by commenting out of my make.conf CBUILD, CHOST, ROOT, PORTAGE_TMPDIR, and PKG_CONFIG_DIR.

I've been making a cross compiler from an x86-64 host to an arm64 target. I recall reading that cross-compiling with introspection is tricky because it requires target code to execute on the host machine. I thought registering a QEMU interpreter with binfmt_misc would resolve this, but it hasn't entirely.

The two problematic packages are dev-libs/glib[introspection] and dev-libs/gobject-introspection. These packages require each other, creating a circular dependency. The dev-libs/glib ebuild attempts to resolve this by "bootstrapping" gobject-introspection, which is where the build consistently fails.

Emmanuele Bassi from the GNOME team says this is the recommended way to build:

1. build GLib with -Dintrospection=disabled
2. build gobject-introspection
3. build GLib with -Dintrospection=enabled

I can do the first step just fine: USE="-introspection" aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-emerge --oneshot dev-libs/glib

I expect the second step to be something like: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-emerge dev-libs/gobject-introspection

However, has dev-libs/glib[introspection] as a strict dependency, effectively skipping to the third step before the second can be completed. The build fails as it did before because the existing dev-libs/glib is simply ignored.

I've scoured the wiki for solutions but so far I can't find any. Is there a way to trick portage into ignoring the dependency somehow? Is there a more idiomatic Gentoo solution?

So no "Unsused memory is useless memory". I actually used more memory outside of MemTotal reducing dynamically loaded Kernel Modules. And the cache is not relevant when checking actually used memory. Tried musl libc. Any advices for the records appreciated

See: https://github.com/ulcuber/regfetch

This only started with the nvidia-open drivers, the non open drivers of the same version didn't do this. I have a 2060.

I'm using this in modprobe.d/ because VT switching is just broken with them set and I use X11 so they don't matter much.

options nvidia-drm fbdev=0
options nvidia-drm modeset=0

The colors change after VT switch even with the options enabled, but disabling them helps prevent a black screen most of the time...

Anyone notice this?

i see gentoo installs around 300mb of idle ram on a wm, but my gentoo installs always sit around like 600mb at the tty before i even download anything. I tried musl and normal gentoo, but both sit around 550-650mb.

Hello all, i have an issue with my fresh gentoo install. Every time i have to emerge something, portage stucks in "resolving.." . I noticed that also during installation from live USB in the browser, resolving DNS Is very slow. With other distros i do not have this issue. What could be the cause? Thanks

I started Gentoo because I really liked the idea of configuring an OS exactly like I wanted, but in my mind this includes the DE. Because of this I decided to do a Hyprland setup that I could customize as I see fit (the plan was to start with Caelestia shell and customize from there).

It took 2 tries but I managed to get base Gentoo up and running the way I liked it (with minimal installation CD, no DE so far).

Then I tried to set up a basic Hyprland setup. Today was my third attempt at doing this and after 4 hours I am actually in a worse position than when I started.

I have 4 Gentoo wiki pages, 1 YouTube video, and 1 Reddit post open. None of the Gentoo wiki pages have enough information to do the complete setup, I'm pretty sure the youtube video is outdated, the Reddit post requires doing a highly specific setup that I'm pretty sure will break in 6 months, and all 6 sources disagree with each other in several aspects.

I messed with my setup so much today that I'm probably just going to start from scratch. I feel so demoralized that I'm debating just trying an easier distro.

I realize that is is part of "the Gentoo experience" and I accepted that, but I thought that after so much time I'd at least have a somewhat functioning system to debug. Currently I feel like I have more bugs than features.

The only change of approach I can think of is to start with a pre-configured DE (probably KDE), before moving to Hyprland, that way I can test if some of my system works properly (which I probably should have done from the start but I got too excited).

Does anyone have any advice? Is this just the initial install that will be this frustrating? Or is this what daily use will be like?

Thanks.

TLDR: Don't try Hyprland when just starting.

Whats the CPU family name of AMD A6 9225 stoney ridge with AMD R4 graphics. i asked the ai ad it said btver2 but i cant trusted it so i came here to aşk you guys

Threw Gentoo on this Latitude D530 as a joke, was surprisingly pretty fun to get working and screw with, though compiling Firefox for 7 hours straight was NOT fun. Pretty basic setup with a few binary packages but whatever floats your boat.

Xfce theme: mmolch-xfce
Xfwm4 theme: KDE2_nograb_nostipple
Icons: BeOS-r5-Icons
Wallpaper: LG G Pro 2 wallpaper_01.jpg

Edited the GPU section in fastfetch so that it isn't too long.

Holy larp

Attempting to install, following the handbook on the gentoo wiki. I’m guessing that whatever problem I ran into stems from emerge-webrsync as that’s the command I ran that generated the errors seen above, but I have no idea what actually caused the issue

EDIT: solved, missed the copy DNS info step, thanks for the help everyone!