this post was submitted on 28 Jun 2023
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[โ€“] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I bought the entire CPU, and I'm going to use the entire CPU.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This is why I load my PC up with as many viruses as possible. I'm not using those resources so why let it go to waste ๐Ÿ˜Ž

[โ€“] multicorn 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I know its a meme, but I am on a Laptop with a ryzen 5 3500U and it only takes 1,5h

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Just built the nightly for fun on my 5950X and it took about 35 minutes.

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They should be compiling their own compilers too.

[โ€“] multicorn 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

how do you think gcc and llvm are installed on a gentoo system?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Oh god. This is giving me flash backs to when i installed gentoo and i had to compite llvm. It took like 72h.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Then let's go another step further, compiling the compiler that compiles the compiler, aka compilerception ๐Ÿคฃ๐ŸคฃโœŒโœŒ.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm going to date myself here, but when I was in high school in the late '90s, a friend of mine introduced me to Linux and helped me get it set up. He gave me the distro he used at the time: Debian. He explained to me how Debian, unlike other distros, compiles everything it installs, which is why it takes so long. I recall him explaining that this would make things run better in some way (but I was a teenager and don't remember too clearly). The install took hours. Many hours. I don't remember what kind of computer I had, it was a Pentium something.

There was such a sort of romance and intrigue to Linux back then. It was so challenging to get working, the desktop environments were janky AF, getting some drivers working was like a day's work. I miss it, though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

emerge -av firefox-bin ftw hehehe

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Extremely... cuz they can get some actual work done during those 8 hours.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Meanwhile I'm sitting here running it off an appimage I found on a dodgy website 3 weeks ago because I'm too lazy to properly install it.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bro I wish. Took 18h on my old potato lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

In 2005, I installed a stage 3 gentoo on a pentium MMX 233Mhz with 32 or 64Mb of RAM. As I was sleeping at night and at uni during the day, it took me 3 days to install the base system. No GUI.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Gentoo users be like