From 7a52ddeba2a68388b544f529d2d92104420f77b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Shipwreckt Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2025 20:02:14 +0000 Subject: Changed from static to 11ty! --- src/posts/gentoo.md | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 29 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/posts/gentoo.md (limited to 'src/posts/gentoo.md') diff --git a/src/posts/gentoo.md b/src/posts/gentoo.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d1ed270 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/posts/gentoo.md @@ -0,0 +1,29 @@ +--- +title: Installing Gentoo Linux +date: 2024-08-31 +layout: post +tags: + - linux + - tech +--- + +## Introduction +Over the past three days I have been trying to install Gentoo Linux, I have also been tinkering with this Linux distro! + +## Installing + +I found the Gentoo Handbook 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. + +*** + +## NVIDIA +After installing I wanted to get my desktop enviroment of DWM 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 Xorg server 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 Arch Linux and played some video games because I was just tired at that point. + +*** + +## Final thoughts +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. + +My favorite thing about Gentoo is that it doesn’t require Systemd 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. + +But that is all, thank you for reading! -- cgit v1.2.3