I last installed Gentoo around 2003 and I used it for several years. I had planned to try a couple of other new distro releases before jumping back into Gentoo, mostly Ubuntu 26.04 and Fedora 44. After thinking about it more, I decided I didn't really care to try Ubuntu right now and I already know I like Tumbleweed better than Fedora. I do like Fedora, it's in my top 5 distros, for sure. Anyway, I decided to skip those and just give Gentoo a try again.

I've been installing Gentoo tonight, it's currently compiling the kernel. It still takes a long time :) A very very long time. I'm writing this from the Gentoo Live disk, as text flies by in my terminal in my 2nd monitor. For comparison, the last time I installed Gentoo I had a Pentium 4 with maybe 1gb of RAM. It may have been 512mb... Right now I'm installing with a Ryzen 9 5950X and 32gb of RAM. It's a huge difference. It's still slower than installing any other distro I've installed the last 20 years.

I'm excited to try Gentoo, after all these years. The good thing about it this time is it's a secondary OS, so I don't need to worry about updating as often as I would if It was my primary OS. I'll probably keep it around for a while, like I did with CachyOS.

Speaking of CachyOS, I did my long update period test, before wiping the disk. I went 60 days between upgrades. It worked fine, no issues. I chose that length of time, because I've gone that long with Tumbleweed before. It worked on Tumbleweed...also worked with CachyOS.

Well, the kernel is finished compiling...so much faster than 20 years ago. Time to get back to setting up the rest.