• tentacles9999@lemmynsfw.com
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    1 year ago

    I wish gentoo was more explored, I felt the same way and then it finally scratched the itch of things working (perhaps even too many options). I actually ended up using gentoo because it was less of a headache to just get things to work in a way that does not feel hacky

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      1 year ago

      I moved to Arch about 20 years ago because I wanted Gentoo but I didn’t want to wait hours for compilation. I remember it fondly though. emerge was kind of a killer feature.

      Though I gotta say, I’m a bit more curious now that we have better processors. And I’m curious what I’ve missed over the years.

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        1 year ago

        With binary packages it’s actually doable on a laptop. Also newer laptops have tons of low power cores which are great for something highly parallel like compiling.