21 days later, ntp is not started yet

NTP has been working just fine since day one.

An NTP daemon being started or not wasn't the problem to begin with, this was all over a misleading warning from a long-abandoned GNOME applet the OP insisted was some kind of authority on the matter... For all the usual "click the GUI thing and make comparisons to Windows rather than read the manual" reasons.

https://dev1galaxy.org/viewtopic.php?id=7801

CHANGE TIME/DATE on your Linux Computer:

sudo date -s "2026-12-25 14:30:00"
This will change your date and time to 25th December 2026 2:30 pm.  Adjust accordingly to your needs.

Of course it is a good idea to make sure your bios time (F2 key or similar at boot) and date are correct first.

thanks for yours two cents man
i wanted that time set automatically, as i understood any ntp client does that

sudo date -s "2026-12-25 14:30:00"
This will change your date and time to 25th December 2026 2:30 pm.  Adjust accordingly to your needs.

Of course it is a good idea to make sure your bios time (F2 key or similar at boot) and date are correct first.

because open source drivers is better

Yes, much. I got tired of the constant jank and driver-kernel incompatibilities. amdgpu just works, and it's included in the kernel.

Sure, when I have time. Mostly stuff a few years old though.

It's getting old now by "gamer" standards, but it's adequate so long as you don't want raytracing.

GPU: AMD Radeon RX 6700 XT [Discrete]

and one yet question,
why radeon? because open source drivers is better for radeons than nvidia? or because Linus not love nvidia politics?
are play games? RX 6700 XT is good for modern gaming.

all strong sides of Gentoo equalize by time for detailed tuning and compilation

I find the benefit you get from any given activity is usually proportional to the time and effort you put into it. Only you can define your comfortable compromise on that sliding-scale from "out of the box, no effort" to "full control, much work".

OTOH, once you do have things set up the way you want, day-to-day Gentoo is pretty much just Arch (or any other rolling-release distro), except updates take longer to install, your PC doubles as a space-heater, and the community is far less obnoxious.

Why, is there something more interesting happening here? Golinux gets to rant on about the follies of youth and the doom of humanity in random threads, this diversion is at least technical and GNU/Linux related.
deepforest asked questions, I answered. That's all.

Thanks you for very interesting conversation man!

ps about Gentoo, may be i am wrong, but all strong sides of Gentoo equalize by time for detailed tuning and compilation especially at not powerfull computers?