lukasz.aep

Gentoo tinkerer • kernel compiler • TikTok creator

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About Me

Hey, I'm Lukasz — I live somewhere between a terminal window and a For You Page. By day I'm compiling, patching, and rebuilding my Linux box from source; by night I'm turning that chaos into short-form videos on TikTok as @Lukasz.aep.

I run Gentoo Linux as my daily driver, which basically means I build my entire operating system myself, package by package, flag by flag. Slow installs, blazing runtime — that's the trade I choose every time.

This site itself is a love letter to the early-2010s Fruitiger Aero web look and the cozy Wii Menu vibe — glassy bubbles, glossy buttons, rounded channels, and a big glowing globe watching over everything.

100%source-compiled

∞recompiles of my kernel

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My Gentoo Kernel

Built from source, on purpose

No binary kernels here. I pull the sources straight from /usr/src/linux, run make menuconfig, and hand-pick every driver and subsystem my hardware actually needs — nothing more.

Custom .config tuned specifically for my CPU and devices
Stripped of modules and drivers I'll never touch
Compiled with -march=native -O2 in make.conf
OpenRC init for a lean, transparent boot
Rebuilt on every major kernel bump — Portage keeps me on my toes

Why bother?

Faster boots, a smaller attack surface, and the deeply satisfying feeling of knowing exactly what's running on my machine. Every USE flag is a decision, every recompile teaches me something new about the kernel I'm booting into.

Gentoo isn't the easy path — it's the understood path. If you've ever wondered what's actually happening between pressing the power button and seeing your desktop, compiling your own kernel is the fastest way to find out.

My actual Gentoo desktop, KDE Plasma with fastfetch running

biksy@localhost ~ $ fastfetch
OS       Gentoo Linux x86_64
Kernel   Linux 6.18.37-gentoo-r1-gentoo-dist
WM       KWin (Wayland)
CPU      AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D (16) @ 5.27GHz
GPU      NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 [Discrete]
Packages 1114 (emerge), 8 (flatpak)
biksy@localhost ~ $ ▌