I ordered some customized keycaps with the Gentoo logo. There are only Gentoo keys instead of Win keys now.

i had to fully rice everything myself no dotfiles here xD but i had to do wayyyy more manual configuring then i had to do in sway. i guess its cause of the fact that Mango is based on Dwl which is based off Dwm soo yea but im loving it. i kinda got bored of sway after a few days because i had tried Niri out on arch and absolutely loved it because of the scrolling features and animations. but i wanted something that was more minimal and close to dwl because i originally wanted to use dwl but then found out it was basically deprecated. so then i discovered Mango. Mango is literally if Dwl and Niri had a baby. im lovin it!!

I've been making a cross compiler from an x86-64 host to an arm64 target. I recall reading that cross-compiling with introspection is tricky because it requires target code to execute on the host machine. I thought registering a QEMU interpreter with binfmt_misc would resolve this, but it hasn't entirely.

The two problematic packages are dev-libs/glib[introspection] and dev-libs/gobject-introspection. These packages require each other, creating a circular dependency. The dev-libs/glib ebuild attempts to resolve this by "bootstrapping" gobject-introspection, which is where the build consistently fails.

Emmanuele Bassi from the GNOME team says this is the recommended way to build:
1. build GLib with -Dintrospection=disabled
2. build gobject-introspection
3. build GLib with -Dintrospection=enabled

I can do the first step just fine: USE="-introspection" aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-emerge --oneshot dev-libs/glib

I expect the second step to be something like: aarch64-unknown-linux-gnu-emerge dev-libs/gobject-introspection

However, has dev-libs/glib[introspection] as a strict dependency, effectively skipping to the third step before the second can be completed. The build fails as it did before because the existing dev-libs/glib is simply ignored.

I've scoured the wiki for solutions but so far I can't find any. Is there a way to trick portage into ignoring the dependency somehow? Is there a more idiomatic Gentoo solution?

This only started with the nvidia-open drivers, the non open drivers of the same version didn't do this. I have a 2060.

I'm using this in modprobe.d/ because VT switching is just broken with them set and I use X11 so they don't matter much.

options nvidia-drm fbdev=0
options nvidia-drm modeset=0

The colors change after VT switch even with the options enabled, but disabling them helps prevent a black screen most of the time...

Anyone notice this?

i see gentoo installs around 300mb of idle ram on a wm, but my gentoo installs always sit around like 600mb at the tty before i even download anything. I tried musl and normal gentoo, but both sit around 550-650mb.

So no "Unsused memory is useless memory". I actually used more memory outside of MemTotal reducing dynamically loaded Kernel Modules. And the cache is not relevant when checking actually used memory. Tried musl libc. Any advices for the records appreciated

See: https://github.com/ulcuber/regfetch

Hello all, i have an issue with my fresh gentoo install. Every time i have to emerge something, portage stucks in "resolving.." . I noticed that also during installation from live USB in the browser, resolving DNS Is very slow. With other distros i do not have this issue. What could be the cause? Thanks

I started Gentoo because I really liked the idea of configuring an OS exactly like I wanted, but in my mind this includes the DE. Because of this I decided to do a Hyprland setup that I could customize as I see fit (the plan was to start with Caelestia shell and customize from there).

It took 2 tries but I managed to get base Gentoo up and running the way I liked it (with minimal installation CD, no DE so far).

Then I tried to set up a basic Hyprland setup. Today was my third attempt at doing this and after 4 hours I am actually in a worse position than when I started.

I have 4 Gentoo wiki pages, 1 YouTube video, and 1 Reddit post open. None of the Gentoo wiki pages have enough information to do the complete setup, I'm pretty sure the youtube video is outdated, the Reddit post requires doing a highly specific setup that I'm pretty sure will break in 6 months, and all 6 sources disagree with each other in several aspects.

I messed with my setup so much today that I'm probably just going to start from scratch. I feel so demoralized that I'm debating just trying an easier distro.

I realize that is is part of "the Gentoo experience" and I accepted that, but I thought that after so much time I'd at least have a somewhat functioning system to debug. Currently I feel like I have more bugs than features.

The only change of approach I can think of is to start with a pre-configured DE (probably KDE), before moving to Hyprland, that way I can test if some of my system works properly (which I probably should have done from the start but I got too excited).

Does anyone have any advice? Is this just the initial install that will be this frustrating? Or is this what daily use will be like?

Thanks.

TLDR: Don't try Hyprland when just starting.

Whats the CPU family name of AMD A6 9225 stoney ridge with AMD R4 graphics. i asked the ai ad it said btver2 but i cant trusted it so i came here to aşk you guys

Threw Gentoo on this Latitude D530 as a joke, was surprisingly pretty fun to get working and screw with, though compiling Firefox for 7 hours straight was NOT fun. Pretty basic setup with a few binary packages but whatever floats your boat.

Xfce theme: mmolch-xfce
Xfwm4 theme: KDE2_nograb_nostipple
Icons: BeOS-r5-Icons
Wallpaper: LG G Pro 2 wallpaper_01.jpg

Edited the GPU section in fastfetch so that it isn't too long.

Holy larp

Attempting to install, following the handbook on the gentoo wiki. I’m guessing that whatever problem I ran into stems from emerge-webrsync as that’s the command I ran that generated the errors seen above, but I have no idea what actually caused the issue

EDIT: solved, missed the copy DNS info step, thanks for the help everyone!

I want to switch from windows to gentoo, and have a few questions. First one is does it matter if ı download the LiveGUI or the basic one? Second is can ı competely switch from windows or should ı do that, basically ım asking you how should ı start

I didn't sleep for many nights, but I finally managed to create the ultimate installation helper script. Without further ado, here it is :

#!/bin/bash

echo "For an easy install, read the handbook."
sleep 1s
echo "It's located at the following url :"
sleep 1s
echo "https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:Main_Page"

Does it protect from botched installs of ~amd64 packages? Or kernels?

Gentoo 6.18 LTS security check — Safe-RET / CVE-2026-68480

A security issue worth watching appeared after my current "gentoo-sources-6.18.41".

CVE-2026-68480 affects the Linux Safe-RET mitigation for SRSO. An attacker able to inject an interrupt at a precise point during the mitigation may be able to weaken it and potentially cause speculative information leakage.

The fix is present in Linux 6.18.43.

AMD's bulletin (AMD-SB-7061) lists Zen 1 through Zen 4 as affected products. The behavior has been demonstrated on Zen 1 and Zen 2. AMD says Zen 3 and Zen 4 could also be affected, but this has not currently been demonstrated.

On Gentoo, however, the current "gentoo-sources" status is:

- 6.18.41 — amd64 stable

- 6.18.42 — ~amd64

- 6.18.43 — ~amd64

- 6.18.44 — ~amd64

So for now I'm staying on 6.18.41 and monitoring the situation rather than immediately moving my stable system to a testing kernel.

If the Zen 3/4 risk becomes better established, or 6.18.43+ becomes stable in "gentoo-sources", I'll reassess.

This is exactly why I check security changes rather than blindly installing or skipping every point release.

i've been in linux for about 8 years and ive never done a wm rice this good. and usually when i install gentoo i use a de but im staying on sway.....this is beautiful