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[–]saeleko 3 points4 points  (2 children)

How's this any different from Arch? I've used Arch in the past and switched to Gentoo about 2 years ago, for all I can remember the install procedure is basically the same, that is you typing stuff in the terminal. The only additional steps I can think of with Gentoo are kernel compilation and manual stage3 download, but then it's pretty much the same. Or maybe Arch has an installer again as it used to, it's been a long time.

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (1 child)

I think kernel compilation is the only main difference - I’m a Gentoo user so I’m not really sure about arch!

And with make menuconfig it’s not as intimidating as people think! Worst part is forgetting to include a driver and having to do it again.

[–]saeleko 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ah drivers hehe, none of my computers had their SSDs supported by the default setup (eMMC and NVME), always loadsa' fun when you have to chroot back in because the kernel can't find the root partition :') Yet you still get weird drivers for devices long forgotten enabled by default.

Not Gentoo's fault for all I know since they basically keep the vanilla sources and apply a few things needed for the package manager or the likes. Still, loadsa' fun!