I installed gentoo then I installed firefox but that does not work and apperantly I need a window manager or deskto environment. I tried xorg/x11 dwm. but it did not work. Now I am not sure what to do. Should I give up for being a brainlet?
>>108462913try installing a "login screen" like any of these https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Display_manager , maybe sddm
>>108462938okay I might try btw do you know if xlibre works? is that better than xorg?
>>108462943Xlibre works, yes, and I use it. YMMV if it is better; it's both about trust in the project maintainers AND (many) changes that may be too small for you to notice... or not. It could certainly also be that a 15 years old xorg would also do the job for you and you don't deeply care (not that you wouldn't want security fixes regardless, but I mean maybe there is nothing you urgently need as a feature that wasn't in it already ages ago).
>>108462974thank you anon
>>108462986no problem. hope the login manager launches and just lets you select and launch one of the installed display managers.else there are logs (from the launcher and/or xorg and/or wayland) plus CLI output that can also be made more verbose that would probably tell you what went wrong
>>108462913what exactly did you do? because if the first thing you did after you got gentoo booted was install firefox then yes it will not work
>>108462913>I tried xorg/x11 dwm. but it did not workWhat didn't work? Is it that Firefox still didn't function after installing a display server, or that DWM didn't work either?
>>108463012startx did not work,connecting to the server. I looked in the log and it said something about the display idk
>>108463038Do cp /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc ~/.xinitrc, put exec dwm in it, and then startx--I think. It's been a while. Idk if you actually need to copy the default over, or if you can just create .xinirc and just write exec dwm to it. Might be worth trying out the latter and then the former.
>>108462913what you're experiencing right now is probably a lack of familiarity with linux in general.install arch using archinstall a few times and try again. it will absolutely feel like you're taking the easy way out or you're just idiot. most people aren't shat out of the womb knowing how these systems are (mostly arbitrarily) put together so we have to learn. people can tell you what to do here or whatever but really what you need is the ability to figure things out yourself, maybe make a guide while you're at it. ive found that makes things stick better and might even help someone in a few decades.
>Close to 4 hours without a status report OP misconfigured something and died of the resulting nerve gas it produced. RIP.
maybe install gnome desktop
Gentoo is too complicated, just install GuiX instead
