Okay, Gentoo round 2 has begun officially (my body was acting up, had to make it chill). Good news, my partitions were remembered from the previous session that ended in doom.
I have used fdisk to confirm their labels are intact from this morning. I do need to mount them before the next step, however, as they are currently unmounted.
This is going a lot faster as it enables me to follow instructions at a reasonable clip. Got to the chroot stage a lot sooner, just took about an hour!
Gentoo Round 2 is going better than expected.
I have achieved the next stage, overcome the dreaded "env-update && source /etc/profile && export PS1="(chroot) ${PS1}" by trusting my gut and not using the default that was marked in the Gentoo Handbook. I selected, "en_US.UTF-8" and now I am ready to build a fucking kernel.
The horrors, now, will probably begin in earnest as I have walked a path of paradise up until this stage due to my previous prep work that got me to this stage a lot faster. It's only been a few hours now.
Gentoo Handbook is still pretty solid in terms of guiding me, a few double takes at times are necessary to fully process the task which is asked of me.
If this were old me, I would've run. However, I am not afraid as I do have safety nets that will allow me to restore this laptop to working order. However, there are 16 miles of terminal wasteland left to traverse...Before the horrors catch up to me, better get to it!
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds
Youre braver than me. I haven't tried Gentoo, but do hear it can be good.
You can check out @linuxuserspace who did a series where they installed Gentoo.
@DodoTheDev I was brave up until a point...The USE Flags was a nightmare that nearly melted my brain. I nearly head-desked because of the overwhelm at all the information that I couldn't parse at once.
That was the horrors that I feared, there was just too much happening and not enough easy to parse information. They expected you to know and I failed to assemble the Puzzle Box correctly.
I wisely backed out and respected Gentoo for it being a formidable hurdle for many a nerd. Installed EndeavourOS instead as jumping back into the Arch Kiddie Pool was best for me at the moment. ROFL
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds
Ah, fair enough. Youre still braver than me. There should be a badge for "I tried to install Gentoo" 🤣.
I love EndeavourOS. I'll probably return to it now that fedora has gone all AI happy. Can't be dealing with that.
But I barely use my personal laptop anyway, so its not a rush.
@DodoTheDev ROFL That would be nice, it should even have a point at which you managed to fail. There is a certain amount of pride to be had with that in respect to Gentoo. Ironically enough, doing all the config stuff was simple up until the USE flags.
I only installed EndeavourOS just because I failed it once and to assert my geek dominance I succeeded at it. ROFL Not a good reason, the lack of LLM stuff is also nice. It does lack access to software, there are a lot of things that I had the ChaoticAUR fill my software roster in on Garuda Linux. Might consider...Returning this laptop to Garuda Linux as the software situation is better. Distrobox might make up for it, at least I hope so.
For now Fedora is still leaving it up to users to install optional packages, but I am certainly with you on the concern. Ubuntu plans on going full local LLM nonsense + everyone's favorite thing to hate: Snaps (hopefully with a distinct opt-out at point of install).
I wouldn't rush just yet, but, do keep an eye out on their hijinks because Red Hat has been stabbed in the head by IBM. They have some influence over Fedora and the open source scene.
@DodoTheDev They are doing it using Snaps (everyone's most disliked and recently really insecure package format). Unless the article that I read on the matter has changed, they were talking some features were going to be delivered regardless and you as a user needed to manually exorcise them from Ubuntu. Which I immediately didn't like from the jump.
To me any inclusion is pretty much a slippery slope as it gives a corporation an inroad and that is not good. I don't view Canonical in the best light anymore, so I can't see the good in the situation of them chasing a pointless endeavor like LLMs.
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds
O, I thought it was opt in.
Wait... No, that was KDE Linux. That was also an interview on Linux User Space.
@WanderingInDigitalWorlds
Dear gods, I'm loosing my geek mojo. They won't let me in at the next LUG!
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@DodoTheDev You aren't losing your geek mojo, it's just a lot of information to juggle. If I recall, you also haven't been sleeping particularly great so that messes with knowledge recall! It's all good. Just a bit of confusion, which I am intimately familiar with myself (as I have that goose on the loose energy).
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@WanderingInDigitalWorlds
Yeah, this week has been pretty hectic. But I guess I'm less interested at the moment.
Maybe once I'm back to one team and my flat purchase is over, and I can think, I'll be in a place to be interested again.
@DodoTheDev Given you have a lot going on too, yeah, I can see it being hard to maintain interest or recall information easily.
It will be all good, as sometimes it's okay to use a computer instead of touch them in an effort to command them to do what you want.
Crest of Light
dodothedev🦤💻