Back in the early 2010s, I had a friend told me that his computer crashed trying to compile all of Gentoo.
“Tell me one last thing”, said Harry. “did i install Open BSD for real? Or has this business, the dual boot failure , both computers damaged, the sharks, all been happening inside my head?”
Dumbledore chortled at him, and his voice sounded loud and strong in Harry’s ears even though the bright ocean mist was descending again, obscuring his figure.
“Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
I used Gentoo for 3y. in hindsight I wasted so many CPU cycles just because I thought --march=native would make things faster.
nope.
you know what made things faster? switching to arch 😂
I did jump onto Gentoo ship chasing performance, but stayed because of USE flags.
When CPUs were a lot slower you could genuinely get noticeable performance improvements by compiling packages yourself, but nowadays the overhead from running pre-compiled binaries is negligible.
Hell, even Gentoo optionally offers binary packages now.
Most of the reason to build your own packages is a form of runtime assurance - to know what your computer is running is 100% what you intend.
At least as a guix user that’s what I tell myself.
Now imagine the same meme but with Gentoo and LFS
I’ve been thinking about it …
NixOS is the better source-based distro. Everything can compile from source, but you can also use the binary cache if you don’t want to.
Nah, Fedora is better, because it has a nice looking logo in neofetch.
In my experience the only people who find the name Fedora fine are the ones who unironically wear trillbies
Well i didn’t even know any other meanings to that word than the distro itself and is fine with it
I’m not even ready for Arch because I can’t make decisions for myself.
That’s easy, just pick btrfs, gnome, pipewire, systemd, gdm, grub, and add flatpak in your additional packages.
Every other configuration is wrong.
/s
ext4, sway, pipewire, systemd, just use the the standard vconsole, grub and use pacman/AUR/custom PKGBUILDs for everything
Newfangled bullshit! Choose ext2, twm, alsa, sysvinit, xinit, and compile additional software from source.
Only 3/7 correct. It’s almost like you wanted to be wrong 😄
I yearn for Fedora
That’s unironically why I like Manjaro 😅
CachyOS on my side. Lol. Decide for me. I’ll change it if I hate it. 🙏😂
Pepperidge Farms remembers compiling apps via the grimoire spells in sorcerer Linux.
