Comments on: I Installed Gentoo So You Don’t Havtoo

By: Jan-Erik

Jan-Erik — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 07:22:04 +0000

In reply to Bryan. And CachyOS gives you the optimizations of Gentoo on top of Arch.

By: ben

ben — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:54:23 +0000

I’m not sure what all you need out of systemd’s rather expansive feature set.

I haven’t used syncthing, but for a single-user laptop/desktop, all I’d really expect to need would be changing SYNCTHING_USER, SYNCTHING_GROUP, etc. in /etc/conf.d/syncthing, and maybe adding some commands (roughly, ‘rc-service syncthing stop’/…start/etc.) to sudoers.

If you actually need to run instances for an arbitrary number of users, to start/stop at login/logout, or various other features, it gets more complicated; there’s some pointers at https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/OpenRC/User_services , but at some point just using systemd is probably the easy answer.

By: Sjoer van der Ploeg

Sjoer van der Ploeg — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:18:03 +0000

In reply to 0xDEADBEEF. Most likely even more, compiling QT used to take ages...

By: Sjoer van der Ploeg

Sjoer van der Ploeg — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 02:12:53 +0000

You should use bindist on most desktop systems anyway.

I’ve been using Gentoo for over 20 years, but my daily driver has been Ubuntu for the largest part and since this year made the switch to Arch.

Most of my experimental devices all run Gentoo, maintaining them can be an endeavour but you learn a lot from it.

By: ben

ben — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 01:59:48 +0000

In reply to The Mighty Buzzard. Gentoo offers their own binhost now, so these days the simple gentoo-with-binhost answer is just Gentoo. Calculate Linux still has their templating thing going, though.

By: pax

pax — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 01:20:05 +0000

Realistically though, you can just install Debian and re-compile a few resource-hungry packages (with apt source) if all you want is an usable Linux installation for an early 2010-era PC.

That said, I have not used Gentoo, but I have used BSD Ports and found it pretty usable. I guess Gentoo shouldn’t be too bad either.

By: Old Curmudgeon

Old Curmudgeon — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:15:59 +0000

I became a Linux system administrator years ago, thanks to Gentoo. My previous career had nothing to do with IT, but as a Linux hobbiest, I knew my way around the command line. When I applied for my first job, I was running Gentoo as my daily driver. In my first job interview, I was asked about my experience with Linux. When I told the interviewer I was using Gentoo with Gnome desktop, I got hired on the spot. I haven’t used Gentoo in over a decade, but maybe it’s time to give it another try.