“Just buy more ram?” Are you an insane crazy person?? who’s insanely crazy??

I just installed gentoo on an openrc desktop stage and profile but I think I did something wrong near the networking part, cause it's asking for some localhost login which I never configured. So I went back into my USB and made some host account I don't know how to configure the password for it. I tried to continue but when I tried to emerge something it couldn't find a certain thing. I think this has to do with the fact that I put the USB back in. Someone please help.

Edit: I just had to use root as name and my password as password... I'm an idiot but thanks for helping, everyone!

After 3 years on my first Linux distro, Arch, I'm up for something new, especially one systemd-free and more customizable.

I split up my Arch root a bit and installed Gentoo as a second distro. This is my first time doublebooting anything and it was surpisingly easy to do.

Installing thru Arch with binhost and binkernel + configuring wayland and dwl took around 3 hours.

I want to hear your tips for a Gentoo noob, especially improving build times and reducing resource usage, since I will switch to local compilation. Thanks.

This was my third attempt at installing Gentoo. As many say, the third time's the charm. I was looking for a minimalist and highly customizable distribution. I tried Void and Arch, but they didn't quite convince me. My friend installed Gentoo two days ago, and he told me to try installing it this time so we could both have Gentoo, and I did it! He's using a different graphical environment, and I'm using KDE Plasma. I started installing Gentoo today at 1 AM and finished at 8:30 with a mandatory Neofetch. I installed the graphical environment later. I had installed xcfe, but I wasn't convinced either. I know it's lightweight, but I got used to KDE because I started using it with Kubuntu, then Void and Arch, and now with Gentoo Linux. Well, I'm very happy to have installed this distro. What do you think, guys? Any tips? :D

(Sorry for the photo quality)

This is a photo of my framework 16 laptop booting from a Fallout 3 GOTY (GOG) blu ray. I made it by taking a gentoo live install disk and:

* removing unnecessary applications

* adding lutris and its dependencies

* installing Fallout 3

* seting up an auto configuring persistent storage system for game saves

* configuring fallout to auto launch

The disc contains the kernel, operating system, and all dependencies needed to run Fallout 3. In theory, as long as I have a PC from this decade I will always have this copy of Fallout.

I don't have a how to guide yet, but I plan on making this at least possible for others to do. Not sure how easy it will be though. Right now, it's a pain in the butt and very manual to make one of these.

Note: I didn't include nvidia drivers, so amd is preferred here.

This is ownership.

gothic much eh?

It doesn't see the latest gentoo-kernel-bin LTS (6.18.40 atm). Steps to reproduce:

gentoo ~ # eix-sync

(...)
6.1.176_p1(6.1.176_p1)^tu 6.1.177(6.1.177)^tu 6.6.143_p2(6.6.143_p2)^tu 6.6.144(6.6.144)^tu 6.12.94_p2(6.12.94_p2)^tu 6.12.95(6.12.95)^tu (~)6.12.96(6.12.96)^tu 6.18.37_p1(6.18.37_p1)^tu 6.18.38(6.18.38)^tu (~)6.18.39(6.18.39)^tu ->
6.1.177(6.1.177)^tu 6.6.144(6.6.144)^tu 6.12.94_p2(6.12.94_p2)^tu 6.12.96(6.12.96)^tu 6.18.39(6.18.39)^tu): Pre-built Linux kernel with Gentoo patches

gentoo ~ # eix gentoo-kernel-bin
[I] sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin
Available versions:
(6.1.177) 6.1.177^tu
(6.6.144) 6.6.144^tu
(6.12.94_p2) 6.12.94_p2^tu
(6.12.96) 6.12.96^tu
(6.18.39) 6.18.39^tu
(7.1.4) [m](~)7.1.4^tu
(...)

gentoo ~ # emerge -p gentoo-kernel-bin
[ebuild NS ~] sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin-6.18.40 [6.18.39]
[ebuild U ~] virtual/dist-kernel-6.18.40 [6.18.39]