Screenshot of QEMU VM showing an ASCII Gentoo Logo + system info

I followed Mental Outlaw’s 2019 guide and followed the official handbook to get up-to-date instructions and tailored instructions for my system, the process took about 4 hours however I did go out for a nice walk while my kernel was compiling. Overall I enjoyed the process and learnt a lot about the Linux kernel while doing it.

I’m planning on installing it to my hardware soon, this was to get a feel for the process in a non-destructive way.

    • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      31·
      1 year ago

      Might as well run Arch at that point. Spending an hour or two pressing y and n teach you so much.

      • Zucca@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        1 year ago

        Arch still doesn’t have the same flexibility as Gentoo. Also Gentoo even offers sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin for precompiled kernel. Personally I use sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel (which autocompiles and installs) and have custom config snippets at /etc/kernel/config.d/.

    • Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip
      21·
      1 year ago

      Genkernel kinda sucks TBH. I dug into the code recently and it has some hardcoded good assumptions. Just use the distro kernel in 2023 though!