Kat
August 11, 2017, 3:39am
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Gentoo is not worth the hassle. you can get Arch, Debian, or OpenSUSE setup and working for GPU Passthrough faster than Installing Gentoo. plus even if he did use Gentoo, there is some weird shit going on with Ryzen and Gentoo specifically anyways. Compilation errors and kfaults. however if he just sticks with the amd64 accept keywords in his make.conf then Gentoo would be somewhat of a viable alternative. but either way it’s still a hassle if he’s been used to systemd for years and I wouldn’t recommend it anyways.
though if OP wants to go through it I made a thread a while back on my experiences with Gentoo. I’m still using Gentoo as well.
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Gentoo Linux is a flavor of GNU / Linux that is popular due to it's customization, it's difficulty to install and actually get working (hence the meme that is wildly popular) and the speed benefits. which honestly is it's biggest flaw as well. and I'm going to get into it a bit in this thread my experiences with Gentoo Linux, the hurdles with this flavor of Linux that requires a lot of experience with BASH (the Linux command line) and a lot of reading.
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My personal favorite desktop environment is Budgie Desktop. as you can see from the above photo I have it working flawlessly. a lot of things I personally use on Linux period, are not available in the Official Portage Tree. (The Official Repo of Gentoo)
Budgie Desktop
Lollypop (a Music Player based on the GNOME based Music player)
GRUB Customizer (a nice easy GUI that lets you customize the boot options of GRUB2)
must be either obtained from an unoffical repository or obtained from git and manually compiled from source. and mind you I keep saying 'Compiling from Source' when it comes to the discussion of this Distribution. this whole distro is compiling everything from source. in other words, you take source code, and compile it to be tailored to your hardware. hence everything within the system is optimized to YOUR hardware. I had this discussion with someone in the lounge but if you don't understand what I mean, I can give you a simple analogy.. imagine if Windows 10, and every single piece of software took advantage of the 16 cores of AMD's Threadripper CPU.. that is basically compiling software and installing it in a nutshell. everything is compiled and will be optimized to your hardware and your CPU will be fully utilized after compilation.
Gentoo's package manager is called Portage. how it works is every single package is only available as source code, and you use what is called USE flags, to add feature support to said package. in other words, let's say you…