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Considering Gentoo

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?

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  • I'd also add a build machine to the setup. Building a modern desktop system on such a machine would take days.

  • Gentoo is really great if you want to learn a lot about Linux really fast. Back when I still used it, the documentation was second to none.

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