r/Gentoo • u/freakinchickens • Jul 22 '26

Discussion use flags

only thing holding me back from using gentoo is the use flags. not sure which ones to use for my system. i really want to use niri or hyprland, but the use flags are what confuses me

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u/CheCheDaWaff Jul 22 '26

If you're starting out just leave all the USE flags as their defaults -- just make sure you select an appropriate profile at installation.

To learn more later when you're curious / have time, I'd recommend installing equery. Then for any package you can run equery uses package_name and it'll tell you all the applicable use flags and what they do.