Making Rookie Mistakes

[@htx80nerd]

Thanks for making these gentoo vids

[@linuxtechgeek]

Glad to help

[@albiemer]

do you have a tutorial about etc-update in gentoo.. there are times that when i use etc-update the system become broke and need reinstallation.. which i have no idea how it is become broken...

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

That's a good point you make, me as a "Gentoo veteran" for some 20 years now. I don't have an easy answer for you here, in the vast majority of cases I keep the original configuration files when I run etc-update because it is very rare that a new configuration directive appears in a new version of an application that has just been installed - but, yes, there is a potential to break something by doing that.

[@biutifo1201]

better use dispatch-conf

[@linuxtechgeek]

Yeah I pretty much keep the old configs unless the program will not run on the old ones anymore, I should make a video on this though

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

@@linuxtechgeek It's one of those "Gentoo things" where I do it my way but I am always interested to see how others do it too.

[@linuxtechgeek]

@@terrydaktyllus1320 same

[@VinnyXL420]

Great explanation, definitely helps rookies like me. I wasnt familiar with euses before, Is it available for rookie distro's as well? Just a friendly tip: If you frame the camera a bit higher, it wont cut the top of your head off, so it wont look like youre bald, when youre not. You got great hair, bud.

[@linuxtechgeek]

Hahaha yeah, my wife moved my damn green screen so now my camera angles are a little out of whack

[@wyfyj]

Is that tree-sitter doing your syntax highlighting?

[@linuxtechgeek]

No I don’t believe so, that’s just eix and I use the kitty terminal with the fish shell with starship prompt

[@linuxtechgeek]

I don’t believe I’m doing any tree-sitter stuff in any if my configs

[@wyfyj]

When I change my USE flags around, my text in vim/nvim is all white. I'm using Alacritty, Bash and Starship as well. I doubt fish would be doing that, but who knows.

[@linuxtechgeek]

@@wyfyj oh I know what might be doing it, it’s called gentoo syntax highlighting, it’s a plugin for vim that you can download. You should be able to check portage for it

[@G.B...]

2:16: "Firefox would take forever and a day to actually compile" 😂 If you use a distribution where compiling from source is the norm, you have to deal with compiler flags all the time... It's part of the deal, I guess.

[@terrydaktyllus1320]

I always install the binary package for Firefox in Gentoo, especially because I run a lot of older machines like Core 2 Duo Thinkpads on which it takes a LONG time to compile big packages. I really don't get "enthusiastic" about browsers because I despise the modern web as a "necessary evil" - it's something I have to use and I just try to use it whilst keeping as much of my privacy as possible, but otherwise any browser I have needs to "just work". For example, most of the time I don't access KZbin with a browser, I do it with Newsboat and RSS feeds - only when I want to comment on a video do I log in via a browser. Likewise webmail, I avoid that now and instead use Mutt as an email client. If I have an alternative access method to the web, I always try to use that - I just hate Web 2.0.

[@biutifo1201]

And in fact Firefox just took me 40 min on a 16 threads cpu. Chromium 3h+

[@linuxtechgeek]

@@biutifo1201 that’s actually not bad time for Firefox, that compile time for chrome seems steep though

[@10leej]

Fire takes me 22 minutes 18 seconds, chromium takes 3 hours 3 minutes and 28 seconds

[@biutifo1201]

@@10leej similar here, are you on -j16 ?

[@hispantrapmusic301]

7 days ago I started with my first Linux distr, arch. It was painful, 10 hours in front of the computer to make it work. In the next 2 weeks I’ll be trying to install Gentoo. I love the idea to have a very customizable distro. I like arch and I’ll run for my main computer but I’d like to move to Gentoo. Do you recommend it? Am I too noob? I already understand the process of booting, each step. I’ll be learning more in these weeks before starting, I will read the handbook and I’m watching your installation guide. I think I’ll be knowledgeable enough to start with gentoo. What do u think? Thank you

[@linuxtechgeek]

Well yeah I recommend trying it. Remember if the installation process seems a bit too much you can always try to install it in a virtual environment first before putting it on live hardware, but good luck

[@joshua_lee732]

Don't watch his install guide, just read the handbook.

[@hispantrapmusic301]

@@joshua_lee732 yesterday I installed it, and I followed the guide and his yt video

[@fabriziot1467]

ten out of ten 👍

[@linuxtechgeek]

Thank you