• @JerkyIsSuperior
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    832 years ago

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

    • idunnololz
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      182 years 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 😎

    • Tb0n3
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      42 years ago

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

  • aaronbieber
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    182 years 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.

    • @marcos
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      22 years ago

      A long time ago, streamlining linux for your computer did avoid all the fuss with modules installation, that would fail often. Also, a long time ago Debian didn’t have many optimized kernels for you to pick, so compiling it for your CPU in particular made a lot of difference.

      None of that is true today.

  • @GameWiz
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    112 years ago

    They should be compiling their own compilers too.

      • @[email protected]
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        52 years ago

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

      • @GameWiz
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        12 years ago

        Then let’s go another step further, compiling the compiler that compiles the compiler, aka compilerception 🤣🤣✌✌.

  • @kautau
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    62 years ago

    Gentoo users be like

  • @flint5436
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    52 years ago

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

  • @Mickpyro
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    12 years 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.