Hello :)
I just finished my first arch install I wanted to set my sights on something more challenging. So, I booted a live image with QEMU Virtmanager to try out gentoo, and after reading the wiki I thought to myself “man i should have started with gentoo”
The arch wiki is good in its own right, but as a beginner i felt really confused and overwhelmed. I felt like I had to google terms just to catch up. The gentoo wiki, however, is really good at explaining concepts and the overview of the technology. When the Arch wiki just says “use mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda2” or something the gentoo wiki actually explains what sda, sdb, etc and ext4 means. I sort of learned it the hard way with arch, but i learn and understand lot more from the gentoo wiki. I love that it explains partition tables, filesystems, heck it even explains what is an IP in the networking section. Making a gentoo system and reading the wiki is basically an interactive computer science course lmao
So, thank you gentoo wiki :)
Yeah good point, I set up arch on a Chromebook recently again after 10 years on OSX, and I felt rusty. Fucked up the partition table the first time, didn’t know the latest stuff with UEFI, accidentally wiped the USB drive I was booting from, and then had to fix all this. I got there, but was definitely thinking “thank God I kinda remember what I’m supposed to be doing here bc otherwise it would take all week”
Anyway very pleasant surprises to see wifi actually be easy in 2024, and the combo of Wayland and Pipewire really bring amazing new performance and power. New gnome is also pretty slick in design: minimal & kinda better than osx actually
And yeah arch wiki is still a godsend - pretty much best in class across all Linuxes, for the incredible wealth of content related to advanced setups
Yeah, I very much prefer the Gentoo wiki. The way it’s designed & topics are explained, it just meshes with the way my brain works better.
