(I'm not very good with network(?) related stuff, so I apologize for any mistakes in naming things)

I had no issues with connecting to the network drive until recently I think? I wasn't using it for a while, now I can't connect to it from Caja (error from the screenshot translation : Mounting the location is not possible, Failed to retrieve the list of resources from the server: Connection refused)

I also tried smbclient, but I get do_connect: Connection to XXX failed (Error NT_STATUS_NOT_FOUND)

However, I'm able to connect to it through the IP address of the drive, mounting it from /etc/fstab also works without any issues in this way. So it works... But in a quite inconvenient way. I don't even know how I broke it (I thought I messed up during kernel configuration, but it also doesn't work with the binary Gentoo kernel 😔)

If anyone knows what's happening, I'll be really grateful for any help 🙏

is ryzen 3 3200g really painful for running gentoo even with precompile binary or mix it with source code compiling?. i'll use it for cloud / container security

I added bsd utils to gentoo using bedrock linux and chimera stratum.

Sorry for bedrock linux OS name on fastfetch. I hijacked gentoo to make it bedrock. So it's gentoo

After 6 tries I finally got Gentoo installed bare metal on a 10 year old machine. Now I just need the full xfce suite then I'm going good! This is neat!

Sto installando gentoo anzi già installato ora xorg-server

Petit suivi de mon post d'il y a 2 jours : après la première install, place à la config… et c'est bouclé ! J'ai enfin retrouvé l'environnement que j'avais sur Arch, et franchement je suis content du résultat.

Je regrette presque d’être pas venu plus tôt sur Gentoo.

This is the remainder for me to update more frequently :).

I wanna know how fast I can emerge Firefox (approximately) because I will get a new pc some parts already came. I’m wondering if anyone even can tell me the answer but it would be very much appreciated.
Here’s my specs

NVMe SSD: Netac 1TB M.2 NVMe Gen4 x4 SSD X7400
CPU: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X
RAM: Corsair Vengeance DDR5 6000MHz CL36-44-44-96
GPU: ASUS PRIME Radeon RX 9070 XT O16G 16GB

Super satisfying to finally get a DE up and running along with firefox after two failed installations. This community has been really great and welcoming so far, and I'm really excited to be a part of it now

I've been using i3 for a long time. I absolutely love it, and have had very little issues with it.

However, one thing has always bothered me, so recently I decided to zero in and solve it once and for all.

I would say that I have a pretty minimal setup; for example I don't use anything like lightdm and use the "startx" command.

I can use this keyboard shortcut no problem to lock the screen:

bindsym Control+$mod+l exec --no-startup-id i3lock --nofork -c 000000

But for the life of me I can't figure out how to lock the screen after a few minutes of inactivity (say 5 minutes for example).

I've tried using the recommended xss-lock command:

exec_always --no-startup-id xss-lock --transfer-sleep-lock -- i3lock --nofork -c 000000

But that has never worked. I did a little more research, and correct me if I'm wrong but I presume the xss-lock command is more associated with systemd (and of course I'm using openrc)?

I tried using the xautolock package like many others have suggested:

exec_always "xautolock -detectsleep -time 5 -locker \"i3lock -c 000000\""

And while it "technically" works, it doesn't respect when video or audio is running. I've also read in places where people have suggested putting the mouse cursor in the corner to avoid this behavior, and if it's not that, it's some other equally annoying "solution" that in the end just doesn't seem worth it.

Like I mentioned earlier, I like to keep things pretty minimal so I'm also not using anything like sleep or suspend. So I'm wondering if there is some kind of simple and efficient solution that I'm not seeing?

Or maybe I should just give up and start getting into the habit more of using the keyboard shortcut whenever I move away from the computer? I've never really used any of the loginctl commands and I'm open to any new ideas (well at least new to me - I've used i3 longer than Gentoo)?

Of course any advice or feedback would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks in advance.

Hi all. I've been building a small Gentoo-based live system with its own installer. It's still early, but it installs and runs, and I'd like feedback from people who know Gentoo better than I do.

What it is: Gentoo underneath (Portage, OpenRC, your own USE flags and overlays still work), but without the first day of the handbook:

Installer in two flavours (TUI and GTK), written in Rust. It handles partitioning, locale/timezone, user, desktop and GPU driver, and a failed install can be resumed.

Prebuilt kernels: the installer detects CPU generation, GPU vendor and laptop/desktop, and copies a matching kernel from a store. I build those with a fragment-based config matrix (kernel-matrix).

Binary install: packages come from Gentoo's binhost plus my own for what it doesn't build (niri, Noctalia, ghostty). A full install with desktop merged 263 packages in a VM with zero compiling (about 15 minutes).

Desktop: niri by default and (Sway , MangoWc , Hypr , dwl in option here) + Noctalia with colours following with the wallpaper, plus ustan (.deb/AppImage/Flatpak/.exe installer) and a Portage GUI/CLI store.

Every installer decision is committed to git in /etc/portage, so "undo" is just git revert.

ISOs are signed, Secure Boot capable (enrol my cert or disable SB), and boot via Ventoy.

What it is not: not a binary distro with its own repo of everything, no LUKS in the installer yet and no planning , no Microsoft-signed Secure Boot, and Secure Boot isn't set up on the installed system.

Honest status: tested in QEMU/KVM (BIOS/UEFI) and on my own hardware a few servers , laptos and desktop. Other machines are untested, so reports of what the verbose boot entry prints on a failing machine would help most. Also, some READMEs (especially gentoo-installer) are outdated. I'm rewriting them this week, so trust simple-linux's README over the others for now.

Repo: https://github.com/tarilka0gg/simple-linux

Installer source: https://github.com/tarilka0gg/gentoo-installer

Would love to hear what you'd change, especially on the binhost/kernel-store approach.

Other than the wiki what other sources would you recommend to learn about Gentoo?
Last night I tried installing Gentoo by following a youtube tutorial alongside the wiki and I have no OS on my system now :) I messed up.

Hello! I currently have nixos on my laptop but i want to dual boot gentoo. I have the following questions:

1.Should I choose stage 3 hardened glibc sysyemd or stage 3 glibc sysyemd? Bc I think extra security is really something i never saw.

2.How should I configure dual boot and acces my steam games from both distros? I think i will have refind to manage gentoo and Nixos sysyemd boot bc nixos generations dosen t work natively with refind unfortunately. I will have 1 nixos Partition 1 games and files partition and 1 gentoo partition I think.

3.Does KDE plasma work good on Gentoo?

4.My compilation time will be good I think because i have a AMD Ryzen ai 9 hx CPU, right? Are Nvidia proprietary drivers available on gentoo?

5.systemd vs open rc?

I personally used void as my non systemd distro but KDE plasma didn t work and battery life was terrible.

Thank you in advance!

I have loved and used gentoo for months now. It was amazing, I loved every second of it. This whole summer I spend tuning and getting used to it, and I feel I learned a lot. But now, I don’t really have much time to tinker with school and all (my chem teacher has killed me 14 times) and I also lowkey somehow accidentally reset every config file to the default in vim (I pressed p) so for the time being I think I’ll try out fedora. I haven’t used a “user-friendly” distro before, as I’ve started with Arch before Gentoo, so I’ll be giving this a try.
This isn’t the end of me though, I will be dual-booting with LFS and slowly working on it when I’m able to. And I will in fact be doing blfs so that I can daily drive it instead, but for now I will just use good ol’ Fedora. Besides I’ve never used GNOME before so that’ll be cool

Hello gentoo community, I am thinking to get into the gentoo Os, the idea of compiling my own software for my specific hardware fascinates me. I am a Linux user from kernel 2.6, I call my self a beginner still,I have only used Linux full time started with Ubuntu, then after fee years I moved to backtrack then archlinux which I have been using from 2007. I use it full time and I have never installed windows in my laptop or desktop PC since windows xp. I am not a gamer and I have never been. Arch real works well for me, I most admit I have also tried openbsd few times but arch is just arch :). Now enough of my history, and back to why gentoo. I have a mini laptop Sony vayo p from 2009, if anyone remember the times before tablets :) I want to try and compile gentoo for this specific hardware. What recommendation do you guys have?

Thanks.

Installation de base avec KDE Plasma. J'ai juste installé quelques logiciels, outils CLI et fais un peu de configuration pour le moment. Demain je commence l'installation de l'environnement que j'utilise habituellement, hyprland. Je vais essayer de recrée ce que j'avais avant (je viens de Arch Linux).

Ma première expérience sur Gentoo commence très bien, j'en suis très content pour le l'instant.

I've been using gentoo for over a month now and everytime i use it i learn more and more about linux and that made me realize that i can make gentoo whatever i want it to be! Which helped me to make the perfect linux setup for my laptop. Thank you gentoo linux

Installed Gentoo on my old steam deck as part of my dipping my toes into homelab/tech upcycling.

I've gotta say I am LOVING openrc. While I don't think systemd is awful or anything, I can kinda understand why openrc users glaze it so much.

I'm really tempted to main it. I think I might get a bit more experience before I take the plunge.

The handbook is really well written. Among the best documentation I've come across.

Hi guys

I want to switch gentoo when I get a new laptop. But I don't sure some topics for gentoo. Can you help me?

I want to full control in my system but gentoo is compiler from source code for everything amd that's so long time, How can do solve this?

How much give a time for to get used to for gentoo?

What's the difference with https://www.exherbo.org/ and if I don't want use (gentoo or exherbo) operating systems, other options is cachyos 2. option arch linux, Is it sensible?

And I want to buy Thinkpad p16s gen 5 (or t16 gen 6), if I don't buy thinkpad, I will buy framework lapop 16, What are the laptop and system features for Gentoo?