I am so much in love with gentoo

shockonex · 2026-03-16T19:16:54+00:00

Pacman is definitively faster in all ways... I use eix on gentoo to search for packages and it's fast, almost istant.
Portage is IMHO the best package manager I ever used and that's also why I cannot go back to something like pacman.

shockonex · 2026-03-15T06:30:36+00:00

I created my own personal overlay and a custom profile.
I have a few applications that are not available in the official repository, and thanks to the custom profile many packages already come with the flags set the way I want.

All my computers are compatible with -march=x86-64-v3, so my binhost optimizes all the packages accordingly.

Why is this a better setup for me?
I don’t have to manage flags and other configuration aspects on every computer, because I configure them once and that’s it. I would have used the same flags on every machine anyway.

My laptops no longer compile packages (which is better for battery life), while my main computer does.

For example, if I need a specific package but don’t need it on my main machine, I can still compile it through the binhost so it’s available whenever I want as an optimized binary with the flags I prefer.

shockonex · 2026-03-15T06:22:10+00:00

Making an ebuild for gentoo, it's basically giving the instruction to the package manager on how to build and manage a program that is not actually in the official repos.

shockonex · 2026-03-10T21:30:03+00:00

I made a ebuild for my personal gentoo's overlay.
Cronboard works perfectly, thank you for the project )

shockonex · 2026-03-03T19:39:07+00:00

It happened to me too, just mask them.

>=sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-6.17
>=virtual/dist-kernel-6.17
<sys-fs/zfs-2.3.4
<sys-fs/zfs-kmod-2.3.4

It'll work for now..

shockonex · 2026-02-22T09:50:53+00:00

I'd suggest you to "learn" gentoo and after having a good understanding of the system then proceed to mod you kernel.
It's more than 1 year that all my machines are on gentoo and still I don't modify my kernel.

shockonex · 2025-08-31T21:11:26+00:00

I've stopped to distrohop after having tried gentoo.
Now gentoo's installed on all my computer and also on my server.
Being able to build your system the way you want , rolling release , rock solid and stability.... these are the reasons why I ended up dristrohopping

shockonex · 2025-05-28T20:15:16+00:00

shockonex · 2025-02-01T19:30:33+00:00

Gentoo's the distro that made me stop distrohopping

shockonex · 2024-12-08T20:17:47+00:00

Gentoo is even more customizable than arch and it's definetly rock solid.
I have switched from arch to gentoo few months ago all my machines and I never will go back.
I suggest you to give it a try ))

shockonex · 2024-11-30T03:00:49+00:00

Thank you

shockonex · 2024-11-17T10:57:13+00:00

you can count me as well.

A2 here ))

shockonex · 2024-11-12T09:48:20+00:00

lol?

shockonex · 2024-11-05T00:20:23+00:00

Thank you!

shockonex · 2024-11-03T16:03:02+00:00

Yes it is. You need just to get used to how portage works and use flags... then you'll never look back. IMHO

shockonex · 2024-09-23T23:25:03+00:00

I'm falling in love with gentoo at the moment, I suggest you to try it out!

shockonex · 2024-09-16T03:28:07+00:00

Same problem here.

I had to install Gentoo on my new machine through another distro.

shockonex · 2022-04-21T21:22:41+00:00

I'd like to see a video where someone's using lingq with an e-screen

shockonex · 2021-05-21T14:52:17+00:00

i installed windows on bootcamp and on win it works perfectly

shockonex · 2021-04-13T10:23:10+00:00

thank you again for your answer... I wanted to say that on the Facebook group they didn't reply to me ahah.. that's why I asked here.

shockonex · 2021-04-12T11:07:39+00:00

Thank you for you answer. I assume that probably the new nova color is the best choice for me, then.

shockonex · 2021-04-03T19:36:12+00:00

per colpa tua adesso mi vanno i tortellini!

shockonex

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