YAY I did it!

[Koshie]

You have rekindled my desire to install Gentoo, this afternoon I install Gentoo on my external hard drive from my ArchLinux, thanks !

[curiousgirl]

Basically I did it because I wanted to see if I could, and I did it on my laptop (after moving everything important onto a flash drive) - I think it was made a lot easier by the fact that almost nothing in my laptop is anything except Intel. How I would have faired on my desktop computer with all the different bits of hardware from all over the place I don't know.

Hazel I actually tried to make the /etc/portage/package.keywords (although not .use) during the installation (which didn't work I had to do exactly what you said, add ~x86 to make.conf and then remove it after, but the first thing I did when up and running was make /etc/portage/package.keywords and the second I tried to install anything I found I had to add package.use in order to deal with "circular dependencies" so lol) because I wanted to try using the zen-kernel.

It does take a while to compile stuff doesn't it! I suppose though once you have everything you want set up that's not so much a problem, except when you update...

LOL but yeah. Fun adventure.

Heh, and it's weird, two people when I was going "AHH it didn't work! AHH I configured my kernel but forgot to save the configurating!!! AHHHHHHH" etc on IM decided that they just had to have a go (although both informed me they'd be doing it on a virtual box) - I think that actually helped me get going because then it became more like a race... I can't let them succeed before I do! LOL.

[curiousgirl]

I absolutely love the colourcoding in vim when I edit stuff in /etc/whatever - that's so useful!

[Freston]

I absolutely love the colourcoding in vim when I edit stuff in /etc/whatever - that's so useful!

Vim has a steep learning curve. It's not difficult, but there's a *lot* to know about it. Have you found `vimtutor` yet? I can recommend it.

[curiousgirl]

Vim has a steep learning curve. It's not difficult, but there's a *lot* to know about it. Have you found `vimtutor` yet? I can recommend it.

I found it but I can say that distractability prevented me finishing it yet...

[curiousgirl]

I now have functioning Xfce.

I am wondering if its better to get it how I like it first without installing distracting programs. Or to install programs first and then arrange it all how I like...

[Rubberman]

Vim has a steep learning curve. It's not difficult, but there's a *lot* to know about it. Have you found `vimtutor` yet? I can recommend it.

That's why I like nedit. It is much more intuitive and sports a very nice GUI. It also has a really nice multi-file search/replace and excellent regular expression pattern matching. It handles both DOS and Unix line terminators, and can fill paragraphs to arbitrary margins. Programming languages are syntax high-lighted (colored) and has automatic brace/bracket/paren matching, auto indenting, etc.

[Rubberman]

I now have functioning Xfce.

I am wondering if its better to get it how I like it first without installing distracting programs. Or to install programs first and then arrange it all how I like...

Myself, I get the UI the way I like it without much more than built-in applications. Then I add the other ones I want and can organize them more effectively.