Bumping

Is gentoo better than fedora for shitposting, spongebob episode watching, play swat 4/starsector/flash games as well as editing in gimp or ffmpeg on a toaster with an amd egpu connected to it trough the (originally) wlan 1x pci port ? I'm computer illiterate tho, i failed installing debian and archlinux 2y ago.

>>1507 If you somehow failed a fucking Debian install, then there's no hope for you in installing Gentoo. If you want to use non-cancerous Arch distro, then I recommend Artix (it has a graphical installer called Calameres for newbies). Just remember to download iso file from: https://download.artixlinux.org/testing-isos.php

>>1507 >>1510 This wiki is named after the meme, not because it is centric to the Gentoo system

>>1510 It's not impossible to fail a binary distro install. Last time i tried installing artix, i got lib.so errors within the fucking live iso. Atleast with gentoo they make sure the iso works.

>>1524 >It's not impossible to fail a binary distro install. When it comes to Debian based distros, I agree. >Last time i tried installing artix, i got lib.so errors within the fucking live iso. Base Artix iso installs perfectly for me, but few days ago, their mirrors for Linux kernel were entirely down, and I couldn't do anything. You can read about it on their forum, but I won't link, because they use CloudFlare for their site. >Atleast with gentoo they make sure the iso works. Not everyone has a PC capable of compiling everything in Gentoo, and especially not everyone has enough time to spend hours on learning how to install it. If my (((Intel))) CPU wasn't butchered by all these Spectre and Meltdown mitigation patches, I would definitely switch to Gentoo GNU/Linux. Right now it's just not possible, because compiling custom kernels, web browsers etc. takes hours, even with the most appropriate CFLAGS, CXXFLAGS and USE flags for me.

>>1526 There is a solution to your issue with gentoo. Use BINDIST useflag or a BINHOST. You can carry over compiled kernels rather trivialy.. Liquorix kernel seems to work rather well for me. Theres also Funtoo, which just packages debian kernel with it's install. >not everyone has enough time to spend hours on learning how to install it You can say the same with artix, last i checked the calmaris installer that was carried over from the manjaro-openrc branch was borked and couldn't function at all because it relied on what ended up being removed manjaro componets. Unless this story has changed, i do believe you still need to use the commandline to install artix. And the process of installing artix isn't really that different from gentoo (in my experenice). Most of them have you: 1) partition manually using something like fdisk or parted 2) mount root and boot partition 3) bind /dev /sys to new filesystem 4) untar a stage 3(or 4) linux tarball 5) install the bootloader Massive simplification of the process but seriously... that's mostly it. If you can install something like void or arch/artix/debian/duvann then installing gentoo isn't complicated at all.

>>1526 >If my (((Intel))) CPU wasn't butchered by all these Spectre and Meltdown mitigation patches, I would definitely switch to Gentoo GNU/Linux. It isn't that bad and if you really want you can remove the mitigation packages. On a last-gen i7 you can emerge the entire base system in about an hour or so. It's certainly a lot better than installing it on a Core2Duo or something from that gen. I don't blame you for wanting to avoid using it day to day but if you're using compile times as an excuse in 2020 you probably never intended to use it anyway. It doesn't take 2-3 days just to get a DE installed anymore.

>>1538 >Use BINDIST useflag or a BINHOST. Thanks, might check them out. >You can say the same with artix, last i checked the calmaris installer that was carried over from the manjaro-openrc branch was borked and couldn't function at all because it relied on what ended up being removed manjaro componets. Calamares is a piece of shit in every distro. Unless this story has changed, i do believe you still need to use the commandline to install artix. They fixed pretty much "everything" with their recent isos, but Calamares still doesn't let me manual partition my disk with encryption. And the process of installing artix isn't really that different from gentoo (in my experenice). Except for the part where in Artix you don't have to configure your kernel or how you want to compile packages. It might be much easier if you write your configurations before attempting to install it, then just git clone your repo with config files in a meaningless directory to copy and paste them where you need. >>1539 >It isn't that bad and if you really want you can remove the mitigation packages. I knew about it, but I believe I'm too paranoid to do that, even if my CPU is swiss cheese already. >On a last-gen i7 you can emerge the entire base system in about an hour or so. Sadly, I have Skylake i3, because I feel for the gayming meme. >I don't blame you for wanting to avoid using it day to day but if you're using compile times as an excuse in 2020 you probably never intended to use it anyway. You're probably right, but after I upgrade my CPU in year or so, I will definitely want to try it then. Gentoo has all the software I need in it's repos and if not, then there's always overlays with ebuilds. Building stuff yourself is also an option, but building something like Chromium takes a lot of RAM. >It doesn't take 2-3 days just to get a DE installed anymore. I mostly use dwm and sometimes LXQt when I'm a lazy fuck, so compiling heavy DEs like Plasma aren't a big problem for me. I might want to try out it's 5.18 release, to check if it got any better.

>>1546 Fuck, I apologize for forgetting to green text.

Apparently someone is trying to remove "racial slurs" from the wiki.

>>2205 Then add them back in!

>>2214 >>2205 Looks like it's being resolved, and most agree to call it "Chink Shit General."

>>2216 >most agree So? doesn't matter if they agree or not, it's chink shit general, as soon as you let people change anything within a community it always ends up dead, looks like people are trying to shill stores on there too. >all that effort over 1 guy changing chink to chinese why cant they just ignore him and lockdown the name?