New user saying hi

korilius · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2013 Posts: 20

Hello all. Testing out the Gentoo waters - thought I'd stop here and say hi.

I must say, the complete and 'udder' control (choice) that Gentoo gives you - and the ease at which it does so - is staggering.

I am hung up with some Grub stuff, but other than that, the install has went well.

I don't know yet whether I'll be switching everything to Gentoo, but as of right now I could easily envision Gentoo being a potential primary desktop! The lure of blazing, stable, custom programs is vewy, vewy, strong! :-)

Glad to be here.
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TomWij · Retired Dev Joined: 04 Jul 2012 Posts: 1553

Welcome!

fturco · Veteran Joined: 08 Dec 2010 Posts: 1181 Location: Italy

Welcome korilius!

666threesixes666 · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 5:46 pm Post subject:

hello, welcome to gentoo. :twisted:

vkr · n00b Joined: 04 Nov 2013 Posts: 2

yeah, welcome!

i92guboj · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 6:51 pm Post subject:

Welcome, I hope you stay. As for grub, you are not alone. But it's a most needed evil, since there's no other bootloader that can do what it does.

steveL · Posted: Mon Nov 04, 2013 7:15 pm Post subject:

m00 korilius :-)

Welcome to Gentoo! Where you'll never have to reinstall (unless you majorly mess-up;) and no more weird behaviour from mismatched libs, followed by yaf 6-monthly reinstall for more weirdness.

Please take a look at these tips, particularly FEATURES=buildpkg which is very useful should you need to rollback a package; not often needed, but very very useful when required.

Regards,
steveL.

666threesixes666 · Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 12:35 am Post subject:

i used lilo first time i installed gentoo, its easy, im familiar with it. syslinux works well for a boot loader too if the /boot is ntfs or fat32. ext{1-4} or btrfs for extlinux. i use grub2 sometimes too. the boot loaders wiki pages are pretty good around this distribution.

Yamakuzure · Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2013 11:37 am Post subject:

Welcome, korilius! have fun!
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korilius · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2013 Posts: 20

Thanks everyone. Gentoo seems, dare I say, challenging and FUN? :-)

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4m4ndaPu6h · n00b Joined: 05 Nov 2013 Posts: 2

Welcome to Gentoo forums!

swathe · n00b Joined: 04 Jul 2011 Posts: 73

Welcome aboard.

korilius · n00b Joined: 30 Oct 2013 Posts: 20

Just finished my first gentoo installation! Does this mean I'm a Gentoo user now? :-)

Can't wait to get a desktop through Gentoo setup and compare it with my Debian desktop.
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