[earth2jason]

In breaking init news, I was sitting at the bar inside Guthrie's of Somerset (wet county now) the exact moment I read this comment. Tried to login for the first time in a decade to reply at the time but the mobile app doesn't have the account recovery that I could find.

Thought that was petty exciting. On this note, I think I will finally overcome my anxieties and make July the month I finally install Gentoo!

[gerdesj]

"July the month I finally install Gentoo!"

Go for it - it really is rather satisfying. Your lap will get rather warm if its a laptop! Stick to the manual and don't get too hung up on minutiae until you have to. I do recommend ~amd64 (the ~ is very significant). Although ~ means something like "beta" you tend to get much more modern software. Make sure you have another route to the internet to find out how to fix breakage because it is inevitable with Gentoo.

I leave the compiler output to fairly verbose and found it hypnotic and very satisfying to watch. I could tell what was being compiled just by the shape of the output.

The wiki and forums are superb.

You might consider running it in a VM at first to get the hang of it and make use of snapshots/checkpoints to back out failed experiments. You could turn that into a stage 4 and recover to bare metal (if you dare!)

Cheers from Yeovil.