I have installed this system 4 times in the last 3 days following everything the wiki shows, and it even boots up without any problems until it gets to the localhost login. At first I didn’t change the name of the localhost in the file in the installation and just entered “localhost” the default one with the password I set up every single time it would prompt me incorrect even though I had used exactly the information I needed the next two installations I changed the localhost name and went with a longer password to see if anything changed. Same thing doesn’t let me login. Login incorrect. I went today and installed it for the last time, again no errors in the installation and the boot up was also flawless, with the only exception that I didn’t put any root password. And still it asked me for a localhost with a password. I am really at my end here, and the only discussion I found in this sub regarding this problem the person just did a mistake and it was explained to them how to fix it, not even in gentoo forums could I find this issue.

I choose openrc and have grub as the bootloader, again booting is perfectly fine and shows no errors starting up everything just that damn login

I really need help guys I’m gonna go insane if this keeps going on. Pls help

Apparently its not wise to plug a display port in and out while your pc is on. I'm really glad i use gentoo honestly, troubleshooting was so easy. atleast i have my make.conf to make things lighter on my integrated gpu🤧

People who have used gentoo for quite some time, is compilation really that worth it? As a user 1 month in, i still keep on just getting compiled packages, and not binaries. Is it really worth the time wasted?

I have a weird efi location, its at /mnt/gentoo/boot/efi. Is there an easy way to replace it with something like /boot/efi

I talked around in the debian community, and i fell like i can only find 3 things why i should stay on gentoo. im too lazy, the logo is peak and the system is super lean. but overall i feel like debian might be the better choice. i can still debloat it and stuff, and do i rlly need all the hassles and the rolling release of gentoo ( i use ~amd64 so its rolling ). what should i really do.

i want to install gentoo but i want to know some topics so i need your help. i want a zfs file system and dinit system so i have a lots of questins

İ read the wiki and in zfs services section i saw some services that zfs need do i need to convert them to dinit files.

When changing init system to dinit do i need to use some useflags i read the dinit section in the wiki but i dont understand it

Does turnstile needs to be configured manually even in pam file i need it for pipewire.

Does nvidia support is good as archs

Without wayland and systemd how much ram can i save

Ah, of course, no binary packages here!

I've only been able to install Gentoo once in my time of using it. So far I'm on try number 5 to get a fully working system with XFCE. Last night I tried twice and first time root and user had no directories and other weird things with fs. I think fstab issues. Then second time last night I ended up not being able to do efi and mount correctly. I'm using an Lenovo from 2016 with a 1tb hdd, 8gb ram and a i5-6400. Does Gentoo just hate it and always finds a way to prevent me from getting a full install? The most I got is it to boot lol