It took about 23 hours to get it booted under its own power using a binary kernel. And on the 4th day (today) I鈥檝e managed to get a custom kernel working. Gentoo has been very fun to use and to customize, and it鈥檚 very fast and responsive, even on my old hardware and with a hard disk, browsing heavy webpages with Librewolf is no problem at all. I鈥檝e been sleeping on Gentoo for WAY to long.
My first Gentoo install was also because it was an ageing laptop that was too slow for anything else. Luckily it wasn鈥檛 my only machine, since the install times for some things were quite long.
Sweet! Been looking into Gentoo myself.
congrats! i find the knobs a cool way gentoo made to define your setup.
have fun with the configs!
Welcome to the club!
Congratulations, let鈥檚 compile qtwebengine!
I鈥檝e tried and failed in the past to get Gentoo booted. How long could it take to compile on modern hardware, like with a 16-core AMD Ryzen 9 5950x, an NVME drive, and loads of detotated WAM? I鈥檓 flirting with the idea of trying once again. My concern is I don鈥檛 have another machine to fallback to, save my phone.