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@Mikelius @pixeldaemon Far as “keeping it updated” you shouldn’t ever run into dep issues if you stick to the stable branch without loads of overlays. I regularly go years 😆 (at least months) between updates without issue.

@StrawberryPigtails @pixeldaemon Round that time, I remember the goto advice was to use whatever #systemrescuecd you had layin around; they were gentoo discs back then, always worked a charm.

@pixeldaemon You always install gentoo from an “already working” system. Basically, all yer gonna do is partition/format the drive, explode the file system to it, and chroot over to set shit up. You can easily build gentoo on an external drive on one (more powerful) computer, and throw it in the one it’s for when yer done. This is a very common way of installing it on an SBC.

@pixeldaemon As a 20+ year gentoo user, I often point people to the handbook as a tool for helping them to gain a solid understanding of linux. The way I recommend you go about it is to first read through the entire handbook and (most importantly) go read about each thing you encounter in it that you don’t understand. Once you think you somewhat have a grasp of why each step is in there, start running through an install. Only use prebuilt kernels for now (ever really), there is no need to build one yourself unless you need something specific. Don’t worry about fuck ups, just keep going till you get through it, you’ll learn what you did wrong as you progress. Once you’ve made it as far as a functional desktop, rinse and repeat until you find yourself only referencing the handbook for verification, not reading it, then move on to learning about portage.

@non_burglar @digitalRights4All In case you weren’t aware, everything from the crosspost shows as intended in Friendica, same (formatting aside) as I see it if I go to the lemmy.zip post.

Really cool project too!! I’ve wanted for quite some time to build one that mounts on my arm like in the later episodes of Chuck. I was thinking of runing #postmarketOS on mine though.

Hope ye stick with it, this is what it’s all about.
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@anon_8675309
Never messed with #WSL, does it give you the capability run a full-on WM the way we could with #cygwin? I used to use it to run #enlightenment on my #Windows computer at work.
@Obin

@ada
🤔 Is talking shit about a bigot for their bigoty ways not bigotry itself?
@pseudo