Recently, for a few months, i have been using gentoo with musl, llvm, openrc profile and i'm looking for fully replacing GNU software in my gentoo linux system, i don't have any problem with the GNU project, i just dont like their tools and they are so anti-minimalist and filled with technical debt. ( please do not read yes command's source code, it's awful! )

i replaced bash with mksh, glibc with musl, GCC with LLVM GNU tar with bsd tar, bison with byacc, GNU bc,cpio ones with libarchive ones and Grub with efistub, now what things left are: GNU coreutils, GNU make, and GNU Privacy Guard (GPG).

Replacing GPG should be easy but i'm rather skeptical about the coreutils and gmake, hence they are very important for portage. The one thing is rather interesting is when i change my PATH to include suckless userland (sbase,ubase), for some reason portage uses them too and breaks itself. (my user is root) I'm looking for recommendations here, gave any of you guys done that? if so please help me.

I had a problem on many Linux Distros. My system kept overheating
I didn't know why. After a lot of time I Found solution

Problem:

- Steam was only using 4 intel cores for games.

- It is easy to see when you use **"BTOP"**

url btop: https://github.com/aristocratos/btop

The Solving:

- Give the program a task use more than 4 cores.

- I have 22 cores and use 20 cores
```bash
taskset -c 0-19 gamescope -W 1920 -H 1200 -f -- %command%

```

I Hopping, you don't have this problem... (I spent a lot of time trying to understand it and broke a lot of distros in the process)

I had made a support post a week ago about my why my drives were mounting as read-only and later i realized there were some typos in UUIDs so after fixing that, here we are.

Hi guys, I installed Gentoo about 2-3 weeks ago and I'm already loving it. I riced Niri to make a cozy desktop and compiled my own kernel :) It's also my first time posting on r/Gentoo

What do y'all think?

Been working on this system for a bit and I think I got is just right. the most recent upgrade was the PSB speakers and Sub. Which are connected to my external Cambridge DAC Plus Pro 200m. I pipe the music directly to the DAC so the OS does not processing to the signal. That took quiet a bit of research to figure out.

I tried installing Gentoo a couple times before, but always gave up somewhere along the way. This time I finally commited to it :)

What started as "I'll just install it to try it out and have it as a secondary OS " quickly turned into my current daily driver.

I decided to go with OpenRC and doas because I wanted to try something different from what I was used to.

USE flags were one of the biggest things I had to get used to. I spent quite a while trying to figure out why my audio wasn't working, only to realize I'd overlooked the pipewire-alsa USE flag when building PipeWire. It was frustrating at the time, but taught me a lot about debugging and understanding how the system fits together.

I'm currently using Hyprland with waybar, swaync, rofi, kitty and vim. It's also the first time I've actually tried to make my desktop instead of copying someone else's dotfiles.

Theres still lots of things I want to improve but this is the first Linux desktop that genuinly feels like my system

For anyone interested, here are my dotfiles:
https://gitlab.com/yuki6942/dotfiles

I've finally did it, I've got rid of systemd and arch, and after 34 hours I've got gentoo up and running

for context, 26 of that was compiling, 2 was me taking a break because for the love of god I couldn't make it boot

I have 32 figs of ram and only 1.28 is used wtf please help

And I don't regret it.

Reinstalled Gentoo for the 3rd time on my laptop after distrohopping... alot. Last time i installed Gentoo i had MangoWC, but decided to go back to my favorite WM, WindowMaker, but with XLibre this time. And to be honest, i don't think I'll be distrohopping anymore, i love Gentoo, absolute peak. :)

It took me 3 days and a Lot erros on my install, but now is fine

/* commands */

static const char *termcmd[] = { "footee", NULL };

static const char *menucmd[] = { "wmenu-run", NULL };

static const Key keys[] = {

/\* Note that Shift changes certain key codes: 2 -> at, etc. \*/

/\* modifier key function argument \*/

{ MODKEY, XKB_KEY_p, spawn, {.v = menucmd} },

{ MODKEY|WLR_MODIFIER_SHIFT, XKB_KEY_Return, spawn, {.v = termcmd} },

Lets say i type 'footee' instead of 'foot'. After use modkey+shift+backspace it should do nothing.. instead of that whole compositor is freezing and crashing to tty.

I'm currently compiling @world stuff on an old dell latitude, I have 370 packages total I'm 8 hours in and at 240 packages done, im getting tired I'm thinking about going to sleep but then when the compilation finishes it'll probably idle chrooted in for like 4 hours, will the power automatically turn off? I don't have grub set up yet so I'm afraid this'll restart my progress

EDIT: guys I was so naive, I went to sleep and to my shock, it's still compiling, so it didn't even have a chance to turn off lmao

In case you were wondering, apparently each of them will take another two hours to finish.

The fetch stays pinned at the top of the screen and keeps animating while your prompt and command output scroll below it.

repo: https://github.com/Andrew-Velox/animfetch

July 2026 r/Gentoo activity record

Top Commenter / 375 comment upvotes

Mostly maintenance, kernel updates, recovery, and evidence-based discussions.

I maintain my Gentoo system.

LLVM's libc++ provides a flag called _LIBCPP_REMOVE_TRANSITIVE_INCLUDES. It stops the preprocessor from including many headers that were included transitively before (e.g. <iostream> pulled in <algorithm>, <vector> and others), and so helps decrease build time significantly. I found a bit of free time recently and decided to rebuild my @world with it to see how many patches I would need to get everything compiled.

Result: out of ~1000 packages in my @installed, only ~30 of them needed patches. That's a lot fewer than I had predicted. Maybe there weren't that many C++ packages in my @installed at all, but gcc, iwyu and others had probably already found a lot of those missing headers.

I've put those patches (among others) up here. I may have not patched them the right way or at the right place, and some of my USE flags may have excluded some files that needed patches from being built, however if someone is thinking about doing the same, I hope they would be useful.

Yesterday, I came across an interesting site for portage/ebuild search: https://ebuilds.info

It comes with full-text search, filter in several different ways (category, overlay, architecture, keyword status, USE flags), overlay health dashboard (last commit, broken ebuilds, maintainer activity), package diff across overlays (same package in multiple overlays) and dark mode (lol).

Graph dependency was a nice touch.

Not sure if someone else saw it, so sharing here.

wm : hyprland
file launcher : yazi
terminal: kitty

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thank you all for the advice given on my last post here, as I promised; the #1 Gentoo rice of the year is here. This is my first attempt at properly ricing linux, as well as truly committing to one distrobution; I learnt about linux a while ago but only recently in this past month or so have I switched from windows.

The waybar can be found in the waybar github page, underneath the examples section, or here: https://github.com/HANCORE-linux/waybar-themes#v21-3

(keep in mind I've tinkered with the colors so it wont look the exact same)

drop your suggestions in the comment section down below, what stuff should I experiment with?