Post #1367634

2026-03-25 14:42 UTC

@det I've never used Gentoo, and I'm already accustomed to systemD stuff. How well documented are the other init systems? Any books on them? And how much time should I spend distro-hopping from Arch to Gentoo? I have a fairly complex setup on my laptop with a good handful of applications including various from the AUR. I use a LUKS on LVM setup for almost everything (including the bootloader) and I use partially the TPM (for swap encryption) and also sbctl. I don't think I can distro-hop right now (university), maybe during winter holidays if we don't go vacationing. It's been like seven years since I last distro-hopped from Debian to Arch Linux.

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@det@critter.cafe 2026-03-25 14:55

@Genstar i cant answer these as well as id *like* to, since i daily drive arch, not gentoo, but gentoo has *really* good documentation, like, i usually hear and see it compared to arch, and the times ive gone to its wiki for something they usually offer info on how to do something for every init system it offers as for package related woes, i feel less confident to say anything but i believe you can configure your own packages as needed? i know package management on gentoo can go quite deep so, probably https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage and https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Portage/Help would help you a bit here the other stuff you mention like luks can certainly work on gentoo though and, i also find myself in a similar situation with changing my daily driver, beyond it being something scary that i havent done to this extent in, 5 whole years at this point, i also just dont quite have the time to learn an entire new way of using linux that lets me safely do everything i need to do im sure someone else could show up here and answer your questions in a more definitive way than i could right now, but i wanted to at least try for you, instead of leaving you in the dark

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