I have an old iMac that I am planning to install some flavor of Linux on and while I was looking at various distros it occurred to me that it might be a good exercise to install Gentoo on it. Other than a separate machine for documentation and downloading the necessary packages, what else should I have set up to try this? Has anyone installed Gentoo on a Mac before? If so, what concerns are there related to things like Apple’s implementation of EFI?

  • cjk@feddit.de
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    11 months ago

    Been there, done that. I was a Gentoo user for about 10 years.

    It costs a LOT of time. Don‘t do it. Use a binary distro and spend the time with friends and family…