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| author | Shipwreckt <me@shipwreckt.co.uk> | 2025-10-31 20:02:14 +0000 |
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diff --git a/public/posts/gentoo/index.html b/public/posts/gentoo/index.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2b60bb3 --- /dev/null +++ b/public/posts/gentoo/index.html @@ -0,0 +1,60 @@ +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> + <head> + <meta charset="UTF-8"> + <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0"> + <link rel="stylesheet" href="/assets/css/main.css"> + <title>Installing Gentoo Linux</title> + </head> + <body> + <article> + <header> + <h1>Installing Gentoo Linux</h1> + <p class="post-date">August 31, 2024</p> + </header> + <div class="post-content"> + <hr> + <h2>Introduction</h2> +<p>Over the past three days I have been trying to install Gentoo Linux, I have also been tinkering with this Linux distro!</p> +<h2>Installing</h2> +<img class="right-image" width="230" src="/images/logos/gentoo.png"> +I found the <a href="https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Main_Page">Gentoo Handbook</a> extremely useful for installing Gentoo Linux. In the past, my attempts to install Gentoo on my test PC, which uses a BIOS system, were, just a big fail due to a bunch of small mistakes I made. But this time around I installed Gentoo on my main PC, which has 18 cores, that allows me to compile things faster. Overall, I found the installation process to be very straightforward. I simply SSHed into the computer and copied the necessary commands to install the required packages, along with some miscellaneous things like ensuring the file systems where 100% working. +<hr> +<h2>NVIDIA</h2> +<p>After installing I wanted to get my desktop enviroment of <a href="https://dwm.suckless.org/">DWM</a> working. Now sadly I do have a NVIDIA Gpu and I knew before I even started installing Gentoo that I would have problems with it. So I tried the simple solution first just installing the <a href="https://www.x.org/wiki/">Xorg server</a> software and the NVIDA graphics drivers. It did not work so I did some more tinkering and updated my system with a configured kernel but I sent it into a panic. At this point I just lost all hope and I had been using Gentoo for two days at that point and I just wanted a normal desktop so I reinstalled <a href="https://archlinux.org/">Arch Linux</a> and played some video games because I was just tired at that point.</p> +<hr> +<h2>Final thoughts</h2> +<p>I really enjoyed messing around with Gentoo, even though it took a long time to do so. The documentation on their website was excellent, and I highly recommend trying it out if you're looking for a faster operating system. Personally, I plan to switch to Gentoo once I get an AMD GPU since AMD is supported way better on Linux.</p> +<p>My favorite thing about Gentoo is that it doesn’t require <a href="https://systemd.io/">Systemd</a> as your init system. Instead, Gentoo gives you the choice to use OpenRC, which I find to be simpler and more efficient and not to add more clean than Systemd. I also love that Gentoo requires you to compile everything, and I noticed that my system ran way faster compared to when I was using Arch Linux or any other Linux distro.</p> +<p>But that is all, thank you for reading!</p> + + </div> + </article> + + + + + <footer class="post-footer"> + <!-- 🌟 Back button --> + <a href="/" class="back-button">⬅ Back to Home</a> + + + <p class="post-tags"> + + <a href="/tags/linux/" + aria-label="View posts tagged linux"> + linux + </a> + + <a href="/tags/tech/" + aria-label="View posts tagged tech"> + tech + </a> + + </p> + + </footer> + + </body> +</html> + |