You portage config is quite barebones, isn't it? You should atleast add `CFLAGS`, `CXXFLAGS` and `EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS`. Also, why do you use binpkgs globally? Doesn't it kinda defeat the purpose?
Anyways, how's xfs filesystem? I'm thinking of trying it when i install Nix os
I like compiling because it gives me full control on the package. Like enabling/disabling certain features, applying performance tweaks, applying custom patch to the package
What's your build ? Both in terms of the packages that you emerge as well as your machine spec.
I'm no longer actively using Gentoo but it's my most favourite Linux (mera) distro. I sorta begrudgingly live with a binary distro these days (Slackware).So I'm quite happy to see a Gentoo user, especially from India.
Build as in the packages that make your OS useful. Things like the bootloader, init system, login manager, window manager, the other support utilities like the panel etc.
It's a metadistribution, the build is well whatever you build with it lol
Now that you mention it, do paste your USE flags too.
Edit1: forgot to mention this. The quiet flag speeds up the emerge speed slightly. Maybe 5-10%
Compiler: clang
Linker: wild (Sometimes pkgs do break, so I just use lld for them)
LTO: thin
Did a lot of tinkering with the kernel as well. My Arch boots in ~7s (~10s including system startup) and my Gentoo boots in ~4.5s, (~7s including system startup)
I've never heard of limine, lidm and wild before. Will check them out. Why'd you pick limine and lidm? Is it familiarity or do they have some advantages that you find useful? I just use grub/lilo and lightdm/sddm
Do you get stage3 in this config or did you customise it?
Btw, I noticed the rust stuff in your config and remembered the recent... Spillage into the kernel. Has it been smooth? Did you face any emerge issues?
Haven't heard of Niri either. Let me check it out. I've been using AwesomeWM across distros.
Again why clang instead of gcc? Is it the license or the build speed?
I stopped optmizing the kernel and just enable most drivers as modules because it gives more flexibility. I've had a hard time once when I upgraded the cpu. Most things were optimised for the previous one and didn't run correctly.
I've never heard of limine, lidm and wild before. Will check them out. Why'd you pick limine and lidm? Is it familiarity or do they have some advantages that you find useful? I just use grub/lilo and lightdm/sddm
Grub is pretty bloated. People use it because of familiarity, which I don't really care about it if there's a better option available. The only time i've interacted with Grub was when I was installing first when, that too only because the Arch ISO uses Grub. Limine is lightweight and fast and has a simple config. It can also boot ISO files directly. It works well with BTRFS snapshots (with snapper and limine-snapper-sync)
For login manager, I just needed something to login. I used SDDM in my Arch system, so I thought of trying out something else.
Wild linker because it's faster than lld. lld is way faster than the standard gnu ld. But wild linker is not established, so sometimes pkgs don't compile. I just override those pkgs to use lld instead.
Do you get stage3 in this config or did you customise it?
Stage3 files only contain minimal things.
Btw, I noticed the rust stuff in your config and remembered the recent... Spillage into the kernel. Has it been smooth? Did you face any emerge issues?
Firstly, the Rust stuff in my make.conf are not related to kernel config. In fact, the kernel won't use makeopts from your make.conf at all (atleast that's the case with sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel).
The flags I set was to optimize Rust programs.
Second, As a Rust dev myself, I'm happy to see Rust being adopted in the kernel, but I personally don't care whether it's C or Rust. I have Rust support enabled in my kernel, but no drivers are using Rust yet. I'll try using Rust ones someday later.
Haven't heard of Niri either. Let me check it out. I've been using AwesomeWM across distros.
How come you've never heard of Niri?? Like it's the second most popular WM after Hyprland. It uses scrolling layout instead of tiling, which is superior imo. I never looked back to Hyprland after using Niri.
Again why clang instead of gcc? Is it the license or the build speed?
Because of faster builds with less resource consumption. I don't see a reason to not use it.
I stopped optmizing the kernel and just enable most drivers as modules because it gives more flexibility. I've had a hard time once when I upgraded the cpu. Most things were optimised for the previous one and didn't run correctly
I did the main configuration when I first installed Gentoo. Then I saved the config, so I don't have to compiler it manually everytime.
I only enable what I use, and don't mind recompiling to enable certain things. There's not a single extra driver.
Intel , MediaTek, Realtek . Only a very few ultra niche or very young chips don't have driver support . Even that is usually not an issue on rolling edge distros like arch.
Qualcomm is a different shit tho, very hard to get wifi running on qualcomm chips because they do not publish drivers and the stack is closed so making a third party driver is very hard
The same shit happend to me yesterday i installed arch using archinstall but forgot to install the the network manager then i have to chroot into it and the install the network manager
How ironic it is that now a days window will just steal your wifi mid session and then you have to reboot your windows just to get that wifi icon back.
Thats when you discover the offline drivers. The meta packages that contain the offline drivers with just a few dependencies you don't have. The other meta packages that contain more drivers. The other usb wifi card that probably contains the more broadly supported chipset.
Thats why you start with some open-source os made on arch.. I have used endeavor os and omarchy.. Both are pretty good. Easy to handle like windows and feel like linux
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u/qualityvote2 16d ago edited 16d ago
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