i mained gentoo back in the day and was very proud that i slogged through the really hard installation process and learned a lot from it, but i'm relieved that the docs promise you can power through an installation in about an hour on a modern system if you are really hurried and i think that's great

also I'm enjoying reading through the handbook which is very detailed but also very clear, so that's probably a good sign

got myself a stick of linux ready to install after dinner >:3

my sister asked "how many linuxes do you need" to which I answered "one more"

gentoo install update: crossed the point of no return about about two hours ago. now in a chroot. i skipped over the binary packages step because it's optional and my eyes are tired, so now a lot of gentoo things are happening.

gentoo protip: compile stuff in a VT for maximum h4x0r ambience

oh my god there is so much linux in here

alright, after about 4 or 5 hours of careful configurating and compiling I am now the proud owner of an unbootable #gentoo system 😎 it isn't accepting the password i encrypted the disk with

I can still unlock the disk and chroot into it via the live installer though, so I probably just fucked up something with grub. an adventure for tomorrow

side thought, I think more software should have build time options to become more offensive https://packages.gentoo.org/useflags/offensive

aw, the `offensive` use flag for gentoo-artwork is just to enable some commie nonsense i was hoping it was something horny https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-301223.html

I have successfully installed gentoo on my laptop. The trick was giving up, starting over, and then realizing the "Simple EFI System Partition Layout" described in the "Rootfs encryption" page is a trap to catch wizards (the actual simple installation is the "Split EFI/BOOTx Grub layout" alternative described after it) 😌

now, uh, time to figure out how to get a gui and sound and stuff lol

also running with binary packages this time. so much faster lol

ok gentoo? really nice. like really really nice. i haven't had that deluxe linux everything on your computer is yours feeling in a long time. this is a good distro if you don't like people taking things away from you all the time.

also for some reason I never got to the bottom of, fedora just couldn't play video? like at all? i mean, it could, if the video was really short and really tiny, but it would freeze if you full screened it or tried to seek. absolute clown show. my gentoo install doesn't have this problem at all <3