Of course a Gentoo dev will say that doing things the hard way is good, but it's still immensely refreshing to hear from others in the FOSS space that LLMs take away the best part of being involved in any of this.

https://blogs.gentoo.org/mgorny/2026/06/11/2026-council-manifesto/

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2026 Council Manifesto

I joined Gentoo over 15 years ago. I was a university student back then. I had lots of free time and energy. I was enthusiastic about novelties, and wanted to push them into Gentoo. Back then, bleeโ€ฆ

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Gentoo Repository does not have all the dependencies that I need for Woodland, looks like Sway is the one I will install. As Gentoo has great documentation, explains all the potential issues and list solutions.

I can't wait for the upcoming days off to install Gentoo. I even found that the reason why I failed my first vanilla Arch install in the Gentoo instructions. Wrong command for Wireless connection. ROFL Like, I feel like a dummy.

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As far as the WM goes, I've likely found the one for me if I can verify that Gentoo has all the dependencies in their Repository!

It's called Woodland and it is a Distro neutral Stacking Window Wayland powered WM. It's pretty minimal, which is what I wanted anyway. Shame about being hosted on Github, eh, hopefully it runs fine after I go through the install process. I did find all the terminals that this WM would seek out in the Gentoo Repository, so there is hope.

https://github.com/DiogenesN/woodland

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GitHub - DiogenesN/woodland: Woodland is a minimal Wayland compositor based on wlroots and inspired by Wayfire and TinyWl.

Woodland is a minimal Wayland compositor based on wlroots and inspired by Wayfire and TinyWl. - DiogenesN/woodland

GitHub

I think that I also want to install the base image for Gentoo...Instead of using the Live. As instead of a traditional DE, I might tackle a WM because this is a pure AMD Laptop. The documentation for installing Wayfire, Sway, Niri, and other WM is pretty good.

This is giving me some real inspiration for ways to torture myself and learn something at the same time. ๐Ÿ’–  

As I am sure to learn a lot from this little adventure. Especially if I turn it into a year challenge, designed to make me actually fix any issues I have. ๐Ÿ‘จโ€๐Ÿ’ป Strangely, feeling my oats about this (surely nothing could go wrong LMAO).

I'm about to have a WILD FEW DAYS OFF SOON.

Can't wait, or could I wait quite a bit. ROFL

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My hope is that I can accomplish some specific goals on Gentoo Linux that are essential to surviving on more advanced distros. Mainly building software packages and compiling it from source that don't natively exist in the Gentoo repository, installing basic software and tools.

Set up the package manager with custom compiler flags unique to my targeted hardware, init system, Wayland, etc. I'm going to make a more comprehensive list later.

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I think, that I will experiment with installing Gentoo Linux on my laptop on my days off, its either the base image or the Live Image that I will use. Its going to be rather interesting as I've read the Gentoo Handbook quite a bit. Perhaps not enough...I will have my desktop available for reading while installing.

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3:30 am and I am installing gentoo on a laptop....
Idk what is wrong with me :3

My husband @dulcis and our friend @hellimelli are in the living room and finished watching "dominion"

I think this is silly :3

But tbh I prefer binary based distros like alpine
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Why is it so hard to decide....

Our Desktop is gonna either run

  • Gentoo
  • Void Linux
  • Alpine
  • LFS

Why?
It should run sth without SystemD that is atleast mildly stable (not breaking bcs there are to many updates at once (looking at you arch))

Some thoughts anyone?

Summoning target audience:
#linux #gentoo #gentoolinux #voidlinux #alpine #alpinelinux

Gentoo
42.9%
Void
25.7%
Alpine
22.9%
Lfs
0%
Sth else idk though
2.9%
look at my comment
5.7%
Poll ended at .

how does gentoo not have msitools

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