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Gentoo vs any other distro (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So you may have heard of the install gentoo meme, when I looked the guidebook I thought it looked a little complex like with Arch.

Does Gentoo have something special that other distros do not? Apparently you can use the USE FLAGS to determine what stuff you want and it's meant to be even more lean on resources.

Isn't there a Gentoo installer like with Arch? With Arch I can confidently just run the installer on a VM but I got stuck with Gentoo

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Gentoo is basically arch but built around everything being compiled locally. There isn't to my knowledge any "Gentoo-install", but if you can manage to install arch manually it should be quite similar. Gentoo is a bit more complex than arch so if installing gentoo manually seems daunting I would recommend staying on arch.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Gentoo is a bit more complex than arch so if installing Gentoo manually seems daunting I would recommend staying on arch.

Why? How will he progress if he don't try harder things?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

There is still a lot to learn from running arch before you try gentoo

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Fair enough, personally I prefer to skip a few steps and then try to figure out what's going on. It's not the best approach, but I find it more interesting.

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