See I could never get Mint. I tried it for a while but just ended up back on Arch. Now I’m eyeing NixOS.

Haha ok. I can see that. I think I never thought anything of it due to the sheer volume of distro names, some odd. Like PuppyOS or other ones like it. Just another bit of flavor to me.

Lol what’s the issue with the name? I’ve heard a few people express this and have never understood it.

Well that’s way easier than my utilization of less or watch or tail that Ive been doing.

I’ve been curious about switching my gaming rig to a Linux distro. Why’d you choose Gentoo? I know PopOS! Is popular for first time Linux gamers, but looking into it I don’t see any appeal over just setting it up myself and maintaining that setup.

When I switched to Linux I went to Arch immediately. I figured if I was in for a penny I was in for a pound. And a barebones Linux install, which seemed to be the whole point of Linux to me at the time, was insanely appealing.

I tried Mint, Ubuntu, and one other that I can’t remember, but none of them have been as well documented or as challenging (yet solvable) as Arch. Of course, it only took me three weeks to get my setup complete so that I could use the bare minimum functionality of my laptop. That didn’t include customization. Installing on an old Mac had its own set of challenges.

Still relatively beginner, but wouldn’t ‘journalctl -u nameofservice.service’ also give you in depth logs over a longer period of time?