Gentoo Linux Important Details Explained

In this video I go over some of the important details you need to know before installing it.

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[bruhgamer]

what a nice looking distro, hopefully it doesn't take 70 hours to install it

[noideac]

Just works distro: Automatic transmission
Arch: Manual transmission
Gentoo: building the car from scratch using some Dr. Seuss machine looking transmission system

[greatcanadianmoose]

You probably see the lowest youtube adsense revenues because your audience actually knows how to install an adblocker!

[turkucpodjadek]

gentoochads workout while compiling so they are always buffed

[rdxdt]

My mom(previous Windows user) is using Linux Mint, and she didn't even noticed that(I applied a Windows 10 theme on Cinnamon)

[jackwest]

As a TA I had to help several students install gentoo for a class. Gentoo is a great distro. Although, compiling massive packages for hours does take a toll. Gentoo discourages trying new software with a lot of dependencies if you are constrained on time. But I do respect it and will switch to it when life settles down.

[JulianUccetta]

Gentoo was my first Linux experience back in the mid 2000s as a teen. I had an extra thick install instruction manual and spent hours getting it set up. Good times

[erdragh]

"Pretty much the Linux endgame":
LFS would like to have a word with you

[laughingvampire]

Forgot to mention a few things.

Gentoo was created by Daniel Robbins to be an alternative to LFS not to Debian, with the goal to have options in every step of the process, and this includes to offer default binaries or compile from source code. Compiling from source code is the preferred because is the one that allows for more options.

Gentoo is not the first distro that Robbins made, Robbins made another distro I think it was Enoch and he followed LFS to make it, then while working on Enoch he tried FreeBSD to see what was about it, then he fell in love with the port system of FreeBSD and that it was a lot more UNIX than Linux. So then Daniel retook Enoch rename it to Gentoo and made Portage.

Gentoo also became famous because included a lot of patches to the kernel that made it faster than any other distro. Eventually all distros incorporated this patches and the "advantage" was lost.

Gentoo kept growing until 2 events happen.

1. Ubuntu came out
2. the loss of the original Gentoo wiki

the original Gentoo wiki was so good that it was the default reference for all things Linux.

then without the wiki and with Ubuntu lots of users got tired to deal with the continuous issues with Portage and the USE flags and its multiple files to configure everything and the lack of proper documentation.

[juzujuzu]

I would just start to install Gentoo on Virtual machine and start to play with it. Figuring out what things are actually important to learn is really hard at first. Majority of USE flags for example are useless and there are just too much to learn. After getting Gentoo to work and after managing it awhile, then I would just go and install it to on real hardware, assuming you have secondary computer at hand. You can always configure it more later.

Gentoo is interesting in the sense that it seems hard for awhile, but then suddenly you realize you know the system. One day you feel there's endless amounts of hard things to learn, and the next day you feel that you handle the majority of the system. Don't give up, because in the end you will feel more comfortable with your system than with any other system, and that feeling is something that's quite impossible to describe.

[NofewFudtefcity]

It's such a little thing, but I really like that you said "Enjoy the rest of your day". Thank you!

Could you make a video about init systems like OpenRC and runit compared with SystemD?

[ezequiel]

LS memes aside, this is why I stuck with Artix. It does take time and effort to use Gentoo, which currently I'm focusing into other things. Maybe in a couple of years I'll revisit it.

[xero]

The Gentoo install I did ~15 years ago was a nightmare, but I learned a lot. Back then Linux was just for learning for me, I just wanted to learn as much as I could about Linux and computers.

[patologicznypiotrus]

gentoo is void/arch for people with a lot of CPU cores and a lot of patience

[NightGlyde]

When I was in high school I attempted to install Gentoo. It didn't work out very well (I couldn't install any packages because portage was broken), but I learnt a lot in the process.

[mattlebutter]

Many tests have been run and show that those compile tweaks only result in very minor improvements, which are not visible from a human's experience. Especially if you have a top-notch CPU to compile your system in a reasonable time, like many commentators on this thread are saying. And compiling at night may be good, but waking-up to an error message with emerge and a broken computer for the day is definitely not that great...
However i think installing and maintaining it for a while is a great learning experience for getting to know Linux.

[avetis]

if gentoo is so great where's genthree

[pfcrow]

I love Gentoo for automatically including local patches from /etc/portage/patches when building packages. I have maybe half a dozen packages where I've tweaked them with local packages, and thanks to Portage, it keeps my patches when the package is updated, and I only have to worry about it when the upstream changes enough that my patches fail to apply or compile.

[jamesschmames]

Arch is not for bragging rights. In many ways it is easy mode Linux. Installing most software is a breeze and you have access to all the latest and greatest. No PPA or SNAP BS. You just have to be a more experience Linux user for the occasion it breaks. You don't even have to be that experienced if you are willing to reinstall once or twice a year. (keep a separate HOME partition, boys and girls)
BTW, I used Gentoo <snicker> for a year or two back in the aughts, before switching to Ubuntu until that was ruined by Gnome 3 and Unity. Gentoo is great in theory, but in practice the tradeoffs are just not worth it. Good for learning though.