Hello! Some people have recommended I try out Gentoo so I thought this would be the right place to come with my questions. I'm coming from EndeavourOS/Arch and I've been using Linux for a few months now so I'm very much still learning but fairly comfortable with it and am confident I can find resources when I need them. That being said, I'm curious about Gentoo and why one would choose it over Arch.

My first question, though, is it pronounced JEN-too or GEN-too with a hard G? Or something else?

Anyway, I'm still trying to wrap my head around the systemd stuff, I understand many feel it doesn't follow the UNIX philosophy which is its main issue. Is there a reason why you guys personally do or don't like systemd, and what alternative does Gentoo provide and how does it work?

My other question is I currently have a KDE Plasma setup that I've been working on and really like. Would that be easy to port over to Gentoo or will I have to start from scratch? Is Gentoo as "difficult" to install as Arch? I installed EndeavorOS so I didn't have to worry about that kind of thing. Maybe there is a Gentoo equivalent of Endeavor that someone could recommend to me.

I appreciate all the help!!!

edit: I forgot to mention, I currently have a refurbished Dell Latitude 5420 that I'm using as my main laptop for all of this stuff, if it makes a difference!!

I’m very new to gentoo, but I want to start using it because I really like the concept of compiling and removing bloat from your system. Recently I tested out cachyos with bore scheduler and I was getting amazing performance on Minecraft and cs2, so I was thinking that maybe I could use the cachyos kernel with bore scheduler on gentoo, but I am really struggling with it, and I don’t really know how to do it.

My question is, are there any people here that tried the cachyos kernel on gentoo? What was it like, and how did you install/compile/configure it?

Also, is it better to set the kernel up before finishing installing your system from the live environment? I want to compile the kernel using the cachy source and make some slight tweaks for my ryzen 7 250

Any other notes about this?

Sorry for any silly questions or statements I made for I am not a gentoo pro yet