Gentoo on a frame.work 16 laptop

Posted Jan 9, 2026 13:03 UTC (Fri) by iabervon (subscriber, #722)
In reply to: Gentoo on a frame.work 16 laptop by felixfix
Parent article: Gentoo looks back on 2025

I'm using Gentoo on a System76 laptop with fvwm3 in X11 with middle-button emulation using openrc. I think you're likely to want to puzzle over your fvwm configuration a bit; upstream rewrote it at some point, and the intended functionality of configuration files works the same, but some corner cases are not handled the same.

I don't even have anything against systemd, but I haven't had any issues with openrc, and don't want to disrupt by working configuration. The main thing I haven't been able to get to work is hotel wifi, which is probably because I can only test it while I'm in a hotel without wifi.

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Gentoo on a frame.work 16 laptop

Posted Jan 9, 2026 14:02 UTC (Fri) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link] (4 responses)

What OS is on your System76 laptop? I actually have three, running different versions; one from a previous job, which I keep as a working standby; one with lots of SSD storage and only an hour or two of battery as my main system; and one lightweight one with excellent battery life but different arrow keys which make switching back and forth a real annoyance. Syncthing keeps them all in sync.

Gentoo on a frame.work 16 laptop

Posted Jan 9, 2026 14:31 UTC (Fri) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link] (3 responses)

I'm not sure what you're asking about OS; it's Gentoo, with no particularly odd choices.

Gentoo on a frame.work 16 laptop

Posted Jan 9, 2026 15:33 UTC (Fri) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link] (2 responses)

My bad; I was thinking you still had the original OS that came with the System76 laptop. Being Gentoo is even better news, thanks.

Gentoo on a frame.work 16 laptop

Posted Jan 9, 2026 15:34 UTC (Fri) by felixfix (subscriber, #242) [Link]

Good grief. You even said "Gentoo" in your original comment. My bad bad!

Gentoo on a frame.work 16 laptop

Posted Jan 9, 2026 16:45 UTC (Fri) by iabervon (subscriber, #722) [Link]

No problem. IIRC, I got the hard drive blank for this one, since System76 is good about telling you exactly what the devices are in a useful form. With other manufacturers that support Linux as an option, I've gotten it with Ubuntu just so I could list the kernel modules that found devices in the original configuration.