Gentoo Wiki
Ranked 3 of 6 online documentations by recommenders
Long-running community wiki with detailed Gentoo and Linux instructions, often compared favorably with the Arch wiki. Critics point to a past hack that lost data and an unofficial backup gap.
Long-running community wiki with detailed Gentoo and Linux instructions, often compared favorably with the Arch wiki. Critics point to a past hack that lost data and an unofficial backup gap.
12 people gave an opinion
- recommend it
- 9
- criticize it
- 3
- approval share
- 75%
Recommended in 3 of 13 months
- November 2025: not recommended
- December 2025: recommended
- January 2026: not recommended
- February 2026: recommended
- March 2026: recommended
- April 2026: not recommended
- May 2026: not recommended
- June 2026: not recommended
- July 2026: not recommended
- August 2026: not recommended
- September 2026: not recommended
- October 2026: not recommended
- November 2026: not recommended (month in progress)
Why it doesn’t carry the badge
- 9 people recommend itNeeds 10 or more, not met.
- 3 recommenders for every criticNeeds 2 to 1 or better, met.
- Recommended in 3 of 13 monthsNeeds 4 or more, not met.
The same three rules apply to every product, and the badge can’t be bought. How the badge works
What people say about it
The reasons people give, with the number of comments that give each one. Open a reason to read what they said.
Why people recommend it
Each mark is one comment
Low-level Gentoo-specific information
“Gentoo's speciality in my opinion, is that it contains some lower level information”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers” “Gentoo wiki contains some stuff that Arch wiki doesn't.”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers” Good resource, referenced repeatedly
“the wiki was amazing and I referenced it repeatedly for other things”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers” “20 years ago, I used Gentoo, and their wiki was the best.”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers” “the wiki was good, I even contributed to it at times”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers” - Comment from 18 Dec 2025 in “Virtualizing Nvidia HGX B200 GPUs with Open Source”
- Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers”
Clean, uncluttered style
“Arch and Gentoo wikis showcase this style well”
Comment from 17 Mar 2026 in “I Love FreeBSD” “things feel less cluttered to me”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers”
What people warn about
Each mark is one comment
Past hack and data loss
“it was an unofficial wiki and so wasn't backed up properly”
Comment from 16 Feb 2026 in “I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers” “which was indeed hacked and lost data iirc”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers” “Gentoo Wiki once had a terrible data loss”
Comment from 15 Feb 2026 in “I love the work of the ArchWiki maintainers”
Other online documentations people recommend
The four most recommended other online documentations, with the same counts for each, so you can compare like for like. The tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs.
| Product | Recommend | Criticize | Approval | Months | Owned | Badge |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ArchWiki | 86 | 4 | 96% | 10 | — | Approved |
| MSDN | 17 | 10 | 63% | 10 | — | — |
| Gentoo WikiThis page | 9 | 3 | 75% | 3 | — | — |
| Anthropic documentation | 5 | 4 | 56% | 4 | — | — |
| Consumer Rights Wiki | 5 | 1 | 83% | 3 | — | — |
What people said
14 of the 15 comments that mention it, newest first. Each links to the original comment.
“Arch and Gentoo wikis showcase this style well”
“it was an unofficial wiki and so wasn't backed up properly”
“the wiki was amazing and I referenced it repeatedly for other things”
“which was indeed hacked and lost data iirc”
“you learn a lot even just copying the instructions into the terminal”
“20 years ago, I used Gentoo, and their wiki was the best.”
“Gentoo's wiki is still great”
“Gentoo Wiki once had a terrible data loss”
“Gentoo's speciality in my opinion, is that it contains some lower level information”
“things feel less cluttered to me”
“Gentoo wiki contains some stuff that Arch wiki doesn't.”
“the wiki was good, I even contributed to it at times”
“the Gentoo wiki was known to be a really good resource. At some point it languished”
“the Gentoo and Arch wikis had a lot of helpful data”
Counts come from 1,795,640 Hacker News comments, November 2025 to November 2026. How we count. Report a mistake.