Arch is not basically gentoo. Gentoo is about as close as you can get to vanilla Linux while still being a distro. Arch is pretty opinionated about what defaults should run, gentoo is explicitly flexible. Also the compiling on gentoo thing really needs to stop, there have been binary kernel packages for ages, even before the recent improvement to binary packages. The gentoo installation in someways is easier than the arch installation, as long as you use defaults and customize after first booting up, and if you really want to customize stuff, portage is an absolute beast.

With binary packages it’s actually doable on a laptop. Also newer laptops have tons of low power cores which are great for something highly parallel like compiling.

I wish gentoo was more explored, I felt the same way and then it finally scratched the itch of things working (perhaps even too many options). I actually ended up using gentoo because it was less of a headache to just get things to work in a way that does not feel hacky

May I introduce you to our lord and savior portage?

Just have to wait until cat 9 comes out with gravitational lensing

Yeah, and you need systemd to read the binary logs. Though I think there may be a setting to change to text logs, I am not sure because I avoid systemd when I can

Still boggles my mind that systemd being terrible is still a debate. Like of all things, wouldn’t text logs make sense?

I saw a post a while ago that made the point that wine might end up being the stable Linux abi, we might come full circle

For research studies you are unironically required to write consent forms so a middle schooler can understand them because that’s the average level of comprehension in the USA

I’ve found kde to be pretty straight forward, it’s also the most similar to windows so you get a general feel for where everything should be. Also for me, plasma just works, but if you are unsure and using fedora you can try a love usb with each desktop before installing

Unironically love gentoo for this as portage will let you know there is news to read and the command to read it. For changes the news is great and tells you step by step what to do

Honestly we should just use 4 bit ip addresses, it’s too hard for me to remember ipv4 addresses anyways. Carrier grade NAT will take care of the rest.

I like the r4s nanopi. Although the manufacturer has their own distribution of openwrt, it does not come preinstalled, and you can use the release directly from openwrt. Because it has a removable flash memory card it’s much easier to install as you don’t have to worry about bricking things

I applaud this future thinking. you need bare metal or whatever you consider L4 to truly rice a system. Gone are the days where superior performance was a couple of finely tuned cpu flags away.

It’s almost time to roll out your own OS, posix is becoming too mainstream

Old news, gentoo has binary packages as an option

Last I had looked into it, although the standard exists, they use their own servers and are not compatible with other rcs implementations

What sauce?

You need to set the scale in the sddm config file. I had the same issue where Kde properly set the theme but not the scaling. Here is a guide from the arch wiki

https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/SDDM#Enable_HiDPI

To find your screen dpi I think there is something in KDE display settings.

Yes you can, swap file makes it trivial because disk is already decrypted in initramfs