1hr+ for a general update* (following the guide. Pre-kernel)
On a more serious note, gentoo is fun… On competent hardware. This is a 4 core Celeron N2940 with 4gb of RAM.
*emerge --ask --verbose --update --deep --changed-use @world is too long to type…
Wtf kinda thinkpad is that? No nipple, massive bezels, and rounded corners. Are you sure this isn’t some weird Temu counterfeit?
Looks like a chromebook to me
ThinkPad? Without clit mouse? Am I supposed to use my own nipple, or god forbid, the TrackPad?
Maybe its just because i dont have a Desktop Environment yet, but my nipple isnt working :(
Have you ever played arcade? Do you sometimes wonder which part of your body controls the movement?
lol. i used Gentoo for 5 years or so. it’s the only distribution I don’t recommend.
it assumes you have hours of CPU time to waste, and hours of your time to
dispatch-configafterwords.do Debian or arch.
lol. i used Gentoo for 5 years or so. it’s the only distribution I don’t recommend.
There are like a million special purpose distributions that I’d recommend people not using as a general-purpose distro.
If it helps, you can emerge them overnight.
Gentoo on a Thinkpad? Why would you do yourself that?
When trying to run gentoo, if you’re emerging with fewer than a few dozen cores (either in a single machine with something like a threadripper, or in a cluster with
distcc), then I highly recommend using the binary versions of certain packages. This can be done either with-binversions of packages, or something like the Gentoo Binary Host Project.Packages that particularly benifit from using binary versions would primarily web browser or web browser adjacent packages such as Firefox, Chrome, QTWebEngine, but really any particularly large compile that doesn’t benifit from compiling locally (eg: not that many use flags, not likely to use any additional CPU features you might have such as avx512). In fact, bin versions of Web browsers often will perform much better than locally compiled versions since they are compiled with additional optimisations that either make the compile time even longer (O3 and LTO), or require additional manual steps (such as PGO where the unoptomised browser is compiled and ran through real-world workloads with a profiler attached to identify code hotpaths so the compiler can optimise more efficiently during a second complete compile run).
Weather update. 2hr20min. Terminal output hasnt updated since I posted. Close to giving up for the night. (If it STILL hasnt moved in the morning, ill just start again then)
Roughly 8 hours ago, that means you might just now be struggling with a nw manager to get a LAN IP assigned, or worse, a wifi network logged in.
Do you have a gui yet?
That netbook is not what I would consider a ThinkPad. And distro wise, is crunchbang still a thing? Something simple with openbox or max xfce would probably be a smart choice. This thing won’t be fun for builds or other compute heavy tasks. For browsing the web and chats it’s probably fine
Legend says it’s still compiling.
@MidsizedSedan using gentoo on thinkpad does not always mean building packages locally
Shoulda stuck with Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon edition.
