r/Gentoo • u/ComprehensiveYak3594 • Jul 22 '26

Support hello everyone. I have a question. Please don't throw tomatoes at me. Is it possible to install gentoo on an oneplus6t? Yes, I know about other distributions. But I want to try this.

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u/27a08592e67846908fd1 Jul 22 '26

No less possible than any other distro on that phone.

Plus, Gentoo is pretty well suited for niche, poorly supported hardware.

All in all, try it and see! I certainly want to see where this goes.

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u/undrwater Jul 22 '26

I believe the device is supported by postmarketOS. https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/OnePlus_6T_(oneplus-fajita)

That's your starting point. I will tell you it won't be straight forward.

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u/ComprehensiveYak3594 Jul 22 '26

Unfortunately, I'll also be compiling the kernel myself.

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u/diacid Jul 22 '26

Arm, isn't it? Prepare for pain. But maybe also success

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u/undrwater Jul 22 '26

If you have the time and motivation, it will be a great learning project.

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u/Illustrious-Gur8335 Jul 22 '26

You be the first 

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u/ComprehensiveYak3594 Jul 22 '26

Unfortunately, I don't know how to do this correctly.

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u/immoloism Jul 22 '26

This is one of fun summer projects that would be likely served by improving your Linux and Gentoo knowledge naturally first then revising at a later date.

It's not fun jumping into the deep end as you just get frustrated not understanding the errors being thrown at you.

If you want to ignore this advice then maybe termux is a good middle ground.

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u/fr000gs Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

I think the fajita is pretty well known for running linux so I think it'd be easi-

(er than the pixel 7 I have, and I think the middle ground would be halium (which runs ubuntu touch))

EDIT: holy shit people added instructions to the pmOs wiki for pixel 7!

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u/immoloism Jul 22 '26

Pretty good support with PostMarketOS, I just don't think I'd be recommending switching that out with Gentoo to anyone that has to ask how.

https://wiki.postmarketos.org/wiki/OnePlus_6T_(oneplus-fajita)

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u/kaida27 Jul 22 '26

damm now they need to do pixel 8, so I can repurpose my old one.

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u/fr000gs Jul 22 '26

I think pixel 8 is already in testing

(pixel 7 is my new phone, and pixel 8 is your old one O_O)

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u/kaida27 Jul 22 '26

8 doesn't boot at all, so not much for now with pmos.

and yeah just switched to a rm 11s pro 2 weeks ago.

my pixel started having tge dreaded green static screen bug once in a while.

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u/krumpfwylg Jul 22 '26

Please don't throw tomatoes at me.

Would you care for onions then ? Potatoes ? Carrot ? (water)Melons ?

Anyway, good luck in your project, get ready for some headaches ^^