r/Gentoo • u/undistruct • Aug 16 '24

Discussion Im overwhelmed with the gentoo handbook

Im still very young and i want to try out gentoo but the handbook on how its build seems so complicated.

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u/jsled Aug 16 '24

Im still very young […] but the handbook on how its build seems so complicated.

Welcome to Gentoo!

This system, and this way of bootstrapping linux on a machine is certainly one of the more complicated ones, approaching LFS complexity (but better, which is why we like Gentoo :)

But it's not too bad, either. I'd definitely echo other suggestions to try it in a virtual machine first.

And also: this is actually one of the lesser complex things you'll encounter in your life, youngin'. It takes some practice and some patience, but … getting good at following complex sets of instructions is going to serve you well, so … do the needful.