ext4 on /.
Gives a simple, mature, and highly predictable base for the operating system.

btrfs on /home.
Adds snapshots, subvolumes, and more flexible backup/rollback options for personal data.

This way, the system stays stable and low-maintenance, while the home partition remains more flexible ...

welcome

Ghostty

My condolences.

Yes, I believe that too: Gentoo can be noticeably superior, but it takes time and knowledge to show it. It is not a distro you judge solely by a default install. Its strength becomes apparent when the user knows what they are doing and shapes it into exactly what they want. But that also comes with ...

I think the mistake is to judge Gentoo by mass-adoption criteria.
Gentoo was never really trying to be Ubuntu, Fedora, or Arch with a bigger user base. Its value is not that it wins in convenience, but that it gives a level of control, transparency, and system literacy that most binary distros ...

COMMON_FLAGS="-march=native -O2 -pipe"
CFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
CXXFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FCFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j16"

RUSTFLAGS="-C target-cpu=native"
USE="wayland -X dbus"
VIDEO_CARDS="radeonsi"

LC_MESSAGES=C.UTF-8
ACCEPT_LICENSE="-* @FREE @BINARY ...

Welcome!

Gnome terminal

Isn't L9 stressful?

Welcome back!

Gnome Xfce Openbox

Welcome !

Kernel: 6.6.8-gentoo-dist
DE: GNOME 45.2
CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 7700X (16) @ 5.573GHz
Memory: 3873MiB / 63501MiB

LTO enable

Sun Dec 24 15:03:59 2023 >>> www-client/firefox-121.0
merge time: 19 minutes and 40 seconds.


Sun Dec 24 13:42:25 2023 >>> sys-devel/llvm-17.0.6
merge time: 10 minutes and ...

thank you.

When does the best choice between portage tmpfs or kernel automatic FS caching occur ?

Τhank you. I've had in make.conf Problem solved.

[b]locale[/b]
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_NUMERIC=C.UTF8
LC_TIME=C.UTF8
LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MONETARY=C.UTF8
LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_PAPER=C.UTF8
LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8"
LC_MEASUREMENT=C.UTF8
LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8 ...

Not installing btrfs-progs.


cat[b] /var/tmp/portage/sys-fs/btrfs-progs-6.3.3/temp/build.log[/b]
* Package: sys-fs/btrfs-progs-6.3.3:0/0
* Repository: gentoo
* Maintainer: base-system@gentoo.org
* USE: abi_x86_64 amd64 convert elibc_glibc kernel_linux man python_single_target_python3_11 zstd ...

I would recommend you the Ryzen5 3600 tdp 65W around €70. It doesn't need exotic coolers or exotic oversized towers.
Ram G.Skill Aegis 32GB, 2X16gb 3200Mhz €60.
Motherboard chipset AMD B550.

nikolis,

I run emerge with --jobs=3 and MAKEOPTS="-j32". I put up with the slowdown when firefox, thunderbird and libreoffice build concurrently, as it does not interfere with interactive use. It does not happen often.
So yes, its quite likely that other builds were happening concurrently ...

figueroa wrote:nikolis -- Use the command:

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qlop firefox

to see emerge time history on your machine. qlop is part of app-portage/portage-utils.

I didn't know about qlop, thanks. i usually use

/Nic # qlop firefox

www-client/firefox
Sun May 21 21:15:18 2023 >>> www-client/firefox-113.0.1
merge time: 30 minutes and 36 seconds.

Thu May 25 19:07:00 2023 >>> www-client/firefox-113.0.2
merge time: 19 minutes and 46 seconds.

Tue Jun 13 22:24:55 2023 >>> www-client/firefox-114.0
merge time: 35 minutes and ...

It tells you that you messed up /etc/portage/package.use/mesa
Typically a syntax error, so show us the file.
GNU nano 7.2 /etc/portage/package.use/mesa
>=media-libs/libglvnd-1.6.0 X
>=x11-libs/libdrm-2.4.115 video_cards_radeon
# required by gnome-extra/evolution-data-server-3.46.4::gentoo[vala ...