There are several guides on the Internet (especially the official Gentoo Handbook) which show how to do a typical Gentoo installation, but I thought I’d add here my own notes on how to do this specifically on a MacBook Pro with full disk encryption and LVM, so it can hopefully save some time vs reading several guides to achieve the same. documentation is perhaps the best one I’ve seen so far for Linux distributions.
Gentoo differs from other distros also in that it uses a rolling release system, so you can just install the system once and keep it frequently updated with the latest versions of everything, rather than having to perform a bigger upgrade in one go each time a new release is out you must update your system frequently though for this to work well.With USE flags you can even customise features on a per package basis if you wish Instead with Gentoo you only install what you actually need and just the dependencies required for example if you use Gnome like me, you can configure the system so that it doesn’t install all the packages required for KDE and so on. It’s not like most other distros which install a lot of stuff and features that you may never use. you really install only what you want/need.you can install binary packages but most software is compiled and thus it is optimised for your hardware, which means it does take longer when you install stuff but you usually get a faster system in return (“Gentoo” is the name of the fastest penguins on earth).Some of the reasons why I wanted to give Gentoo a try as my primary OS are: I must say that so far I am loving it and I don’t miss OSX/macOS at all since I found and got used to the alternative apps for Linux. IMO the installation isn’t as complicated and difficult as many think it is, so I eventually installed Gentoo on my two MacBook Pros as well as the desktop. I recently decided to switch from OSX to Linux and went with Gentoo, so this post describes how install Gentoo on MacBook Pro.
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