On my EIZO monitor with DP connected I have no issues seeing all of the boot process (Gentoo and Debian 13). I just have to ensure I power up the monitor 1 second before starting the computer. This monitor has great colors for it’s age, only 60Hz, though.

At work I noticed the newer Dell monitors seem to boot for 2 to 5 seconds, but the BIOS on both work machines is slow enough to don’t bother counting down 5 seconds until I boot them.

Generally, I find it a bit annoying and great that everything “monitors” is so dynamically detected. This is why I always power on the monitors first and I can live/work in peace.

Maybe. But, only until bedtime I managed to solve all the issues and I needed to it run overnight. I had use flag issues only every 3 to 6 months, granted, but it was enough for me.

Interesting. Why not use systemd-nspawn? From what I understand, the kernel is shared anyway.

Or it is about the friends you loose after you have successfully installed Gentoo and now maintaining it.

Fun aside: I used Gentoo for more than a decade (15 years?, idk). Since I am back on Debian stable, I don’t feel like I am missing out on stuff I want to try, because I don’t have to wait or solve useflag issues anymore. I still think, Gentoo is a solid distro, but I have other hobbies, too. If it were my sole job to maintain a Gentoo system I would do it. But I don’t want to deal with it anymore in my spare time.

I rather do ${line%% *} and avoid awk.

Sadly, I have sound issues since the switch to pipewire is complete. There is less stuttering, yes, but sometimes I experience complete silence. Only if I change the volume a bit, it is back again.

I suspect random switches to the dummy output but I could not find the source of the problem, yet.

wow, I can see some of the programs be very useful on modern systems. I like the spreadsheet editor.

What are the application we can see here?