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Screenshot of QEMU VM showing an ASCII Gentoo Logo + system info

I followed Mental Outlaw's 2019 guide and followed the official handbook to get up-to-date instructions and tailored instructions for my system, the process took about 4 hours however I did go out for a nice walk while my kernel was compiling. Overall I enjoyed the process and learnt a lot about the Linux kernel while doing it.

I'm planning on installing it to my hardware soon, this was to get a feel for the process in a non-destructive way.

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[–] demonsword 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I run it as my main gaming OS, no joke

pics or I'll call that bullshit

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Do we have some kind of a remindme bot here? I'm away from home for another week and this is my desktop.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Running Kingdom Come: Deliverance while doing a world update in Portage. Have at it!

Now why is there an EA launcher icon in the taskbar? Well, I was going to take a screenshot of Mass Effect LE, but EA launcher decided not to cooperate with me, probably a Proton update or something (KC:D was also having a brand new crash till I switched over to Experimental). I was too lazy to look up the process ID and kill it because I'm going to reboot when I update my kernel anyway.

[–] demonsword 2 points 1 year ago

now we all can safely believe you ;)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is at least a few of us. My gaming desktop, personal laptop, and work laptop are all running Gentoo!

[–] demonsword 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I remember trying to install gentoo back in 2007... gave up after 3h of endless compiling and came back running to debian

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's very different now. Much more smooth. Of course you still configure the system manually. But following the handbook will get you a working system pretty easily.

[–] demonsword 1 points 1 year ago

oh, I don't doubt that, all distros I've come across have come a long way since I've began using linux