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I want to apply this patch: https://lore.kernel.org/amd-gfx/20260709031520.841611-1-mario.limonciello@amd.com/
Of course, I have a reason for it, but is Gentoo the only way to do that? I've seen people say that with Gentoo you compile your own system.

Edit: Turns out it's already in the mainline kernel.

Hello, I recently bought a usb 3.0 express card. However it does not work and I’m using the hardened kernel could that be the issue?

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.

EDIT: I successfully compiled dev-libs/glib[introspection] and dev-libs/gobject-introspection in a QEMU chroot by commenting out of my make.conf CBUILD, CHOST, ROOT, PORTAGE_TMPDIR, and PKG_CONFIG_DIR.

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?

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.

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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