That was in 2004. So yeah, it went well, as I’m still running Gentoo.

The installation went ok, but it took ages. I had Compaq Armada E500: Single core 900MHz Pentium III and 256MB of RAM. I had help from my friend who explained in detail what we were doing and why during the installation process.

Next time I needed to install Gentoo I did it by my self. I had the Gentoo Handbook open on other machine and I followed it carefully. I was surprised by how smoothly the install went.

Few weeks ago I once again installed Gentoo onto a new machine. 36-cores (two Xeons) and 256GB of RAM. It’s always funny to compare how much more powerful my newest machine is compared to my first Gentoo machine. ;)

Oh and welcome to Gentoo. ;) If you need any help the forums are a great place to ask.

P.S.: A great username btw. 😁

And I started with Gentoo…

Wrapper?

Wrapper to what?

It’s supposed to be more strict about standards… and maybe lighter in resources. I’ve been only testing it. Curiosity driven choice. 😉

Gentoo user here too. I once switched to systemd, but didn’t stay using it for too long. Back then some things didn’t work with systemd. Nowdays my systems use seatd instead of logind or elogind. Some have musl toolchain. It’s just simpler, currently, for me to use OpenRC on all of my setups. But the thing I most disliked with systemd was that it cannot work without journald.

Welcome to Gentoo!