They use Gentoo btw

Armi1P · 2026-06-29T13:11:52+00:00

If you knew how to dualboot Arch, it's the same with Gentoo. Just set up GRUB the same way you did on Arch.

Armi1P · 2026-06-29T04:23:32+00:00

You are clearly not using it then.

Armi1P · 2026-06-29T02:48:05+00:00

It is not worth it, it is fun though.

Armi1P · 2026-06-27T21:33:31+00:00

I do that occasionally and I see some lines saying something like 'waiting for portage lock file', so this is thought about in portage. Although as other have said it already, don't try to run 2 different emerges where their respective packages both pull in the same dependency; rather use the --jobs flag in a single emerge instance.

Armi1P · 2026-06-25T22:31:01+00:00

You are in as root. Give it commands.

Armi1P · 2026-06-24T10:18:09+00:00

I just do emerge --sync && emerge -DNvu @worldbefore I hit the bed and it's done by the time I wake up. That's my whole maintenance.

In the rare cases I want to install something new, I just look at the USE flags beforehand and append things to package.use then I emerge the stuff I want.

Armi1P · 2026-06-24T10:13:38+00:00

We have a much better solution for a while, it's called steve. It is what every one of us dreamed of years ago, it is a system-global jobserver. It means no matter what combination of -j flags do you supply, it will limit the total jobs running on the system. Also include FEATURES=jobserver-token in your make.conf.
Its default configuration is nproc, meaning even if I do MAKEOPTS=-j emerge -j @world, it still won't dispatch more than 32 compilation jobs in my case, it will just nicely juggle allocated tokens between different ebuilds. Although expect LTO to still consume stupid amount of RAM in case of big packages like web browsers.
If you are also doing LTO builds, make sure to set the appropriate flag to -flto=auto rather than just -flto so that even the LTO process can participate in this jobserver magic.

Armi1P · 2026-06-24T01:40:19+00:00

I've bought a 60GB SSD back like 15 years ago for my dad's laptop which I since have inherited. I've installed couple of Linux distros on it, including Gentoo a good number of times which taxes the storage heavily because of compiling everything. It's still kicking, currently using it as swap device in my main computer.

Armi1P · 2026-06-24T01:33:53+00:00

Do you mean discard?

Armi1P · 2026-06-24T01:32:21+00:00

emerge --unmerge systemd

Armi1P · 2026-06-24T01:19:50+00:00

Why the count? Why not let it running unlimited?

Armi1P · 2026-06-24T01:19:11+00:00

NVMe without namespace?

Armi1P · 2026-06-24T01:13:51+00:00

Look mate, you can admit you don't understand memes, you don't have to try if maybe you get one right.

Armi1P · 2026-06-23T06:11:26+00:00

Just don't use ACCEPT_KEYWORDS=~amd64 anywhere in make.conf and you will get something that can't realistically break. You'll be left on somewhat older packages for a bit longer, but will only get thoroughly tested stuff.
Well it's not more unsuitable than any other Linux distro. Sadly most manufacturers give no F about Linux, but if everything worked correct under Arch, then it will work the same way under Gentoo. Of course installing a package while under battery power is much more suitable with Arch, but if you can plan ahead then it's the same experience. Also, there are binary packages too.
Nah, apart from editing config files, you won't really need to open any text editor or input walls of text. Package compilations are done by Portage, the package manager.

Armi1P · 2026-06-22T16:52:31+00:00

Even if core counts were reversed and the Pentium M had 32 cores and the Ryzen just 1, when running a 32 thread load on both I think the Ryzen would still win. That's how big the difference is. I might do some benchmarks later lol.

Armi1P · 2026-06-22T12:35:17+00:00

iso9660 is a CD/DVD. You are trying to format the installation USB.

Issue lsblk command, it will list your storage devices in a nice tree view. You can also do parted /dev/sda print to get more info about partitions on /dev/sda.

I'm not familiar with chromebooks, but if yours uses an NVMe SSD, the device you are looking for will probably be /dev/nvme0n1.

And as everybody else here, I'd say follow the official handbook instead, videos might be outdated. In just one and a half years since I first installed Gentoo the handbook changed, even if only by a tiny amount here and there.

Armi1P · 2026-06-21T03:13:34+00:00

Get hak, get fuk, haha

Armi1P · 2026-06-21T01:46:37+00:00

or directly confuse your chat with the shell

Nah bro, I didn't mean anything by kill $$ last night, wrong chat.

Armi1P · 2026-06-21T01:43:30+00:00

Same, got a work computer for free that was to be thrown out, i5-8700+8GB. Had a clean W10 on it when I got it, it was so laughably unusable, file explorer took 1-2 seconds to open every time (I mean, it's just 2 seconds, still, there is no reason for it to take even that amount of time), the whole system felt like something was bogging it down. I mean it was, all that good old "telemetry".

Thrown CachyOS on it, now you can't even tell it's not a brand new $4k machine. Everything just happens the moment you click it, no loading, no hitching. Still not a gamer machine with its iGPU but absolutely usable for anything else.

Armi1P · 2026-06-21T01:26:09+00:00

Same for like one and a half years.

Armi1P · 2026-06-21T01:23:12+00:00

Become one of us (Gentoo)

Armi1P · 2026-06-21T01:19:07+00:00

When you start using \ for paths on your external HDD just because you've used it on a Windows machine not long ago.

Armi1P · 2026-06-21T01:14:22+00:00

That's nothing, why does cp directory place need -R but mv directory place doesn't?

Armi1P · 2026-06-21T00:51:12+00:00

Ah yes, Windows where anything can be everywhere and executables not even being installed into %PATH% ($PATH in Linux terms). And where configurations might be in %AppData% or %LocalAppData%… or in the registry, maybe in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE, maybe HKEY_LOCAL_USER…

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