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.

@aeva This feeling is why I settled on Slackware as my preferred distro, too, tbh.
A bit more work to set up than the average, but the tradeoff is that it feels like *my* computer, and it does what I tell it to (and only what I tell it to).

@miss_rodent it stinks in here but it's *my* stink >:3