this reminds me i should update my kernel

I thought arch was all about reducing bloat. Is gentoo better than arch?

Gentoo recompiles everything, so it can do optimisations based on your particular setup Arch can't.

Arch is about telling other people what you use. If you use gentoo, you can take way more pride in you installation.

I hate my monitor for that. Entering the bios is guesswork about when to press a key if I remember what key to press. Also I can't turn it on too early before the PC or it will go to stand by after not receiving a signal for two seconds and then take even longer.

I want a monitor turns on and stays on.

Let me guess, samsung odyssey?
Had one of those, never again.

Friend even called me that he has fucked up his pc rebuild - his Samsung monitor was just not waking up because it literally turns off.

It's an MSI but now looking at pictures ofequivalent samsung odysseys it might very well be the same monitor with a different sticker on the back.

And yes, it turns off, the PC doesn't see a monitor so it doesn't send a signal, and the monitor doesn't turn on either because it's not receiving any signal.

REISUB time when that happens.

I'd argue that there's literally no difference in difficulty of installing Arch vs Gentoo vs LFS. The only difference lies in the convenience of package management. Arch is very convenient, everything is precompiled. Gentoo is more time consuming. No difference in setting stuff up tho. LFS makes you be the package manager. Which isn't really difficult, all programs clearly state which dependencies they have, but it's just much more time consuming.

You can also just recompile the kernel and any utils yourself on Arch, if you want

You can recompile the kernel in any distro. In Gentoo, you have to compile the kernel (because you compile everything).

Arch is pourover coffee; Gentoo is those ridiculous Rube Goldberg setups that take 45 minutes to make a single cup. Both are for hipsters.

In Gentoo, you have to compile the kernel

This is not true any more. Gentoo provides sys-kernel/gentoo-kernel-bin as an option.

After restarting the installation for the 5th time, and wasting 5 hours compiling the kernel each time, you should be proud you finally can type on the TTY.

Had the same behaviour with an acer monitor, that shit definitely flows from the same factory

Afaik it's a displayport issue (because DP has the feature to detect if PC is on). I've had the issue on multiple monitors that it wouldn't turn on the next time I booted the PC. After a lot of unsuccessful googling I finally found that the pc off-> monitor off -> pc on-> pc doesn't see monitor -> monitor stays off apparently happens because of a capacitor not discharging properly, getting the monitor stuck in "pc off" state. Flipping the monitor power switch (or disconnecting the power cable) for 15-20 seconds has so far always fixed it for me.

But maybe there are other reasons too.

I've learned the hard way that there's only one decent Samsung product line - from big appliances to little electronics - and it's their phones (and even those leave questions on privacy).

I’m not saying that’s not the case, but it has both hdmi and displayport, and it’s happening with both, had it on either one, alternating, both plugged in, nothing plugged in and then jamming either cable in there as stuff was powering on, I did eventually resign myself to having to yank out the power cable and plug it back in when it was misbehaving. Nowadays it’s just sitting in a corner, seldom used, should honestly toss it but it’s still sorta works, when it feels like it.

I have a modern Lenovo monitor (2020) that takes longer to wake up than my hp monitor. So annoying.

Edit: aforementioned is from 2011 and is a zr2040w.

The Lenovo monitor is a d22e-20

That's funny, while I still buy Samsung TVs, I hate their phones. So much of what their phones can do is usually locked to only working in Samsung's apps and those are universally dog shit. The phones themselves are also often privacy and user control nightmares.

Granted, there isn't a lot of good choices for phones these days. I'm still running an old LG phone and have been looking outside Android as my next possible solution. But, I also haven't had a reason to upgrade.

I heard Samsung's SD cards are good

Folk w/o FDE ...

Obviously arch can be rebuilt pretty easily, gentoo does almost nothing that arch can't, and rebuilding itself osn't one of those things. Look up ABS.

Only SD card I've ever had die. I go with sandisk for important SD cards and team group for less important ones. Neither have ever failed.

What?

Arch basically happens at a granularity of individual packages. You decide from the ground up which packages you actually need, which is how you end up with a comparatively minimal setup.

But yeah, if the package itself is big, then Arch doesn't usually deal with that. The Linux kernel comes with drivers for most hardware out of the box, which you can remove, if you know you won't need that hardware.
And while this can also be done on Arch, it is Gentoo's thing to do precisely that.

My 13 years old AMD FX-6300 can compile kernel in about half an hour. Sounds like a skill issue.

How long does it take to open the Wikipedia page on hyperbole?

Keep going. Kevin can get smaller, leaner, faster and hopefully has apparmor or selinux already.

Full disk encryption

(I can't beat monitor powering up.)

Ubuntu is that shitty Keurig machine with big plastic pods, but they call them "snaps".

Maybe dropbear and unlock really fast from another device where the monitor is already on?

Have a Samsung TV and it's by far my least favorite. Turns off at random, takes forever to switch inputs, turns on at random...

As for phones I'm eyeing the Motorola RazrFold, since they're supposedly offering it Graphene-ready

To add to this, the big thing you get when using Gentoo is to setup your compiler to use all of the optimizations for your exact CPU/other hardware.

The binaries for arch are built for generic x86-64, while your Gentoo system could bet setup to include AMD-specific optimizations or to remove code paths that you would never used based on your hardware.

The result will be that the binaries will typically be smaller and optimized specifically for your hardware.

The downside is that a system update will take you half a day of churning your CPU on compiling.

Maybe if you used TPM key storage to automate the unlock. But ofc that reduces security

Slowing you down. Ah, same. I may have used higher than default iterations 😅

Get a ardunio and wire up a bop-it so you can unlock your computer faster.

Statements of the utterly deranged

My laptop boots much faster than my desktop PC (both running Fedora 43) despite my desktop PC being much faster.

What's this "boot" of which you speak?

Do people really turn their machines off these days?

Fun fact about monitors turning on slowly: did you know Windows has a bluescreen code for that?

The WIN32K_POWER_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT bug check has a value of 0x0000019C. This indicates that Win32k did not turn the monitor on in a timely manner.

~ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/debugger/bug-check-0x19c--win32k-power-watchdog-timeout

That's right, Windows will panic and throw a bluescreen if your monitors take a little too long to wake up. Had the pleasure of dealing with this suddenly becoming an issue and causing wide bluescreens on wakeup after an update back in mid-2024, on any Surface Dock using DisplayPort with specific Acer monitors.

I'll just get one of those closed sauce humanoid robots dependent on AI megacorps to input the pass at superspeed.

Or just tell it to keep the monitor turned off & only power it on once desktop shows up.

The future is near!!

yes

Yeah, but I'm using Arch cause I have better things to do. You guys have fun compiling your own stuff without me.

I feel like the boot time is almost entirely uefi ram timing shenanigans these days

Woah woah..... is there someplace in the event logs where this would show? Does this mean that you cannot run a windows computer headless?

Does your desktop have more RAM, or faster RAM? If so, the training step can take much longer. In your desktop’s BIOS look for a setting called “Memory Context Restore” and turn it on. That can dramatically speed up boot times.

Thermal cycling

gentoo arch?

Every day