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Re:Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run? by Legogris on Sunday April 12, 2020 @01:50PM (#22849831)
I remember spending a lot of time with that as a teenager. A stage0 (or was it stage1?) installation took about a weekend, I recall. I was a bit surprised recently realizing that there's still a significant Gentoo community, with influx of new users. Didn't really occur to me that the installation experience is completely different these days, but that makes sense.

Might give it a try again.

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Re:Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run? by chiefsucker on Monday April 13, 2020 @01:10AM (#22853347)
> Didn't really occur to me that the installation experience is completely different these days, but that makes sense.

I used Gentoo as my main OS for multiple years over a decade ago, installed it a couple of times, and helped with the localization of several documents, but I still remember the installation being basically the same as it is now.

I’m honestly wondering what is meant by this statement?

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Re:Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run? by arantius on Monday April 13, 2020 @11:46AM (#22856827)
In the past you used to be able to choose from various stages, which went down to _very low_ level. Now you must start from stage 3, which is already a (slim, but) fully bootstrapped/running installation, which you customize from there.
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Re:Bored? How about trying a Linux speed run? by phist_mcgee on Sunday April 12, 2020 @11:25PM (#22852928)
It might have a lot to do with the high profile nature of gentoo on the /g/ board on 4chan. There are a lot of people still on the gentootrain.
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