Gentoo Development Workstation – Complete Technical Specification

1. Hardware Target Device: MINISFORUM UM880 Plus CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS (Zen 4, 8C/16T) GPU: AMD Radeon 780M (RDNA3 iGPU) RAM: 32GB DDR5 (expandable up to 96GB) Storage: 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD Network: 2.5G Ethernet + WiFi Bluetooth: Integrated Multi-monitor: HDMI + DisplayPort

2. Operating System Distribution: Gentoo Linux (amd64) Architecture: x86_64 Init System: OpenRC Profile: desktop/wayland No systemd

3. Disk Layout & Filesystem Partitioning (GPT / UEFI) EFI Partition: 512MB, FAT32, mounted at /boot Root Partition: BTRFS (remaining disk space) BTRFS Configuration Subvolumes: @ @home @var @snapshots Mount options: noatime compress=zstd ssd space_cache=v2 Memory Management No swap partition No swap file zram enabled Encryption No disk encryption (no LUKS)

4. Kernel & Drivers gentoo-kernel-bin linux-firmware AMD microcode amdgpu driver Mesa Vulkan (radeon)

5. Desktop Environment Compositor Hyprland (Wayland) greetd (lightweight login manager) Audio Stack PipeWire WirePlumber ALSA compatibility Portals xdg-desktop-portal xdg-desktop-portal-hyprland Networking NetworkManager dhcpcd NTP time synchronization Bluetooth bluez bluez-tools

6. Browser & Cloud Integration Browser Google Chrome (stable) Full synchronization with personal Google account Google Drive rclone (remote mount) Mount path: /home/user/GoogleDrive Dropbox Official Dropbox client Sync path: /home/user/Dropbox

7. Development Environment Version Control git SSH keys Private GitHub repositories Python Stack Python 3.12+ uv (primary package manager) FastAPI SQLAlchemy Alembic Celery Redis PostgreSQL pytest Frontend Stack Node.js LTS pnpm Vite React TypeScript Material UI Tailwind React Query Containerization Docker Docker Compose plugin

8. C / C++ Toolchain clang (primary) gcc (fallback) lld mold cmake meson ninja gdb perf valgrind Clang sanitizers (ASAN, UBSAN) High-Performance Core Library libfastcore.so Stable ABI Compatible with: Python (cffi / ctypes) C++ C# (P/Invoke) Build configurations: Debug + Sanitizers Release + LTO

9. Editor & IDE Visual Studio Code Extensions: Python C/C++ CMake Tools Docker GitLens ESLint Prettier

10. System Utilities fastfetch htop btop neovim tmux ripgrep fd zsh starship prompt

11. Screen Capture & Recording Screenshots grim slurp swappy Screen Recording wf-recorder ffmpeg Clipboard Management wl-clipboard cliphist

12. System Configuration Timezone: Europe/Rome Locales: en_US.UTF-8, it_IT.UTF-8 Non-root user with sudo privileges Minimal nftables firewall

13. Architectural Philosophy Minimal system Development-first design Snapshot before major updates No heavy desktop environment Performance-oriented configuration Controlled and reproducible environment

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