Hello my friends
Just configured and installed Gentoo with the help of the Gentoo installation guide and a youtuber, tony. Was wondering, what are some useful USE FLAGS I should add? Also I’ve only been using some pretty simple Linux distros for about 8 months, so bear with me because I do lack a lot of knowledge. I am using OXWM as an environment with tony’s github configuration and am running everything on my PC with a 9070xt and 9800x3D because I mainly use my computer for gaming, but I love configuration and messing around in the terminal. I’m stating this just because I would love to hear some recommendations or tips I could use that may be different from other distros, such as Arch, CachyOS, Bazzite, Nobara, NixOS, SteamOS. Once again, sorry for being a noob, and as you can tell, I am a distro hopper, but after this installation and learning the Portage manager, I can strongly say I feel at home already. Thanks for reading and its nice to see a great community online within Gentoo
Posted Aug 29, 2026, 3:08 AM UTC