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?

  • michalb
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    11 months ago

    I had been a Gentoo user for a couple of years on MacBook Pro. I can say only this: it takes a lot of time, don’t do it. Rather: go out with family, have a beer or two.