Screenshot of QEMU VM showing an ASCII Gentoo Logo + system info

I followed Mental Outlaw’s 2019 guide and followed the official handbook to get up-to-date instructions and tailored instructions for my system, the process took about 4 hours however I did go out for a nice walk while my kernel was compiling. Overall I enjoyed the process and learnt a lot about the Linux kernel while doing it.

I’m planning on installing it to my hardware soon, this was to get a feel for the process in a non-destructive way.

    • NaN@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      41·
      1 year ago

      Might as well run Arch at that point. Spending an hour or two pressing y and n teach you so much.

      • Zucca@sopuli.xyz
        4·
        1 year ago

        Arch still doesn’t have the same flexibility as Gentoo. Also Gentoo even offers sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin for precompiled kernel. Personally I use sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel (which autocompiles and installs) and have custom config snippets at /etc/kernel/config.d/.

      • H2207@lemmy.worldOP
        3·
        1 year ago

        Agree. Poking around the config menu with all those options definitely showed me just what the kernel actually does and supports, it was oddly cool being able to turn on/off WiFi or Bluetooth for example, or GPU drivers.

    • Kangie@lemmy.srcfiles.zip
      2·
      1 year ago

      Genkernel kinda sucks TBH. I dug into the code recently and it has some hardcoded good assumptions. Just use the distro kernel in 2023 though!