Adventures with Gentoo: A Guide

I began my Linux adventure with Ubuntu when I was 12 years old. My first computer ran Windows XP, it was a 2004 Dell computer with an Intel Core Duo. I used Linux out of necessity, Windows 10 was far too laggy and Linux just ran so much faster. Once I got a bit nicer hand-me-down computer, I ran Windows for some time again. I did this because I enjoyed playing video games, and also enjoyed Office 365. I found that most of my video games ran on Linux just fine,m so I moved back, and haven’t looked back since. Now that my hand-me-down broke, I switched to a much slower computer. After running Arch on my old computer, I switched to Manjaro as I was just lazy. Using a Desktop Environment was just too laggy for me, though, so I decided to run a more minimal Distro with a minimal Window Manager. My choice? Gentoo Linux. After running Gentoo for a few months now, I can speak about some of the troubles I have had so far, what I have done to fix them, and why I think Gentoo is my Linux home for the indefinite future. ...

February 20, 2021 · Coleton O'Donnell