Arch Linux or Gentoo?

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I am better at Linux than Tom. To prove this, I'm going to install an even more obfuscated version of Linux than the one he pampers himself, and torture myself with it for a month. Which should I choose? Arch or Gentoo? Gentoo, of course, I have to compile myself. Arch is a little less nuts.

 

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Gentoo, because it was a poster once.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Gentoo, because it was a poster once.

Best reason I've ever heard.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

This is for you Tom:

 

[Granule]

I am better at Linux than Tom. To prove this, I'm going to install an even more obfuscated version of Linux than the one he pampers himself, and torture myself with it for a month. Which should I choose? Arch or Gentoo? Gentoo, of course, I have to compile myself. Arch is a little less nuts.

Hi, I'm Granule. You must be the forum self abusement director.

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

I am better at Linux than Tom. To prove this, I'm going to install an even more obfuscated version of Linux than the one he pampers himself, and torture myself with it for a month. Which should I choose? Arch or Gentoo? Gentoo, of course, I have to compile myself. Arch is a little less nuts.

gentoo isn't that obscure.

we even had a former member named gentoo

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

how about mint?

 

[Minister of Truth]

Haha, Billy and Grind beat me to it! I think any self-respecting FP/JPP member should go with Gentoo. As I recall, he retired out to the Caribbean...

 

[cancel2 2022]

I am better at Linux than Tom. To prove this, I'm going to install an even more obfuscated version of Linux than the one he pampers himself, and torture myself with it for a month. Which should I choose? Arch or Gentoo? Gentoo, of course, I have to compile myself. Arch is a little less nuts.

Go with Gentoo, at least you might get some sleep waiting for it to compile.

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

nah he gets enough sleep from reading your posts tom

Spoiler

lmao

 

[cancel2 2022]

nah he gets enough sleep from reading your posts tom

Spoiler

lmao

So what's your excuse? It's must be 5:00am where you are!!

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

sleep is for pussies.

 

[cancel2 2022]

sleep is for pussies.

Pussy is clearly something that you're not getting!!

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

just want you to know, I had a really good insult lined up, and it was really mean. I just now decided not to use it though.

 

[cancel2 2022]

just want you to know, I had a really good insult lined up, and it was really mean. I just now decided not to use it though.

I am sure that it will keep.

 

[cancel2 2022]

just want you to know, I had a really good insult lined up, and it was really mean. I just now decided not to use it though.

 

[BRUTALITOPS]

lmao tom double quotes me and responds twice over an 8 hour gap. you can't do that bro, it's like getting into an argument, coming up with the perfect comeback after the fact, you can't go back. you gonna respond with another quip next week?

haven't you ever seen the jerk store episode of seinfeld?

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

gentoo isn't that obscure.

we even had a former member named gentoo

Not obscure, obfuscated. It's a hardcore variety of linux.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I think I'm going to make the default font comic sans.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

Great. I have two SATA settings, "Enhanced" and "Compatible". If I choose "Compatible", the hard drives work, but the USB stick doesn't. If I choose "Enhanced", the USB stick works, but the hard drives are inaccessible. The CD drive doesn't work at all.

That leaves me with two options:

A) Network install - need a second computer, difficult to come by at the moment. Tried to look into setting up a TFTP/DHCP server on my smartphone, but it looks like too much of an assache to bother, plus I think that I may need the same CPU architecture on both the server and machine being installed too.
B) Set up a VirtualBox with RAW hard drive access to my second hard drive (yep, my laptop has two hard drives, it is only partially mobile), partition it and install Arch to that hard drive, and simply boot from it when I need to boot Linux.