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Oh that poor laptop, spent days and days compiling Gentoo. I was just mesmerized by the scrolling compiler messages, amazed to see something that complex trans
by codr7 5y ago
Oh that poor laptop, spent days and days compiling Gentoo.
I was just mesmerized by the scrolling compiler messages, amazed to see something that complex transform into a working system.
And once it was done I usually found a reason to start over again, just one more flag to make it perfect.
Oddly, I can't remember ever actually using Gentoo, just compiling.
- robohoe 5y agoI vividly remember compiling KDE (12-24 hours) and Firefox (3+ hours) back in like 2006. The hype and complains about Gentoo’s compilation times were legendary back then.
- hnbear 5y agoI used Gentoo as a daily driver back in early college (2002-4)-ish. Was a lot of fun, but a huge amount of time compiling Every time I decided to try a new window manager and update USE flags to do something like add GTK support for Gnome, or QT for KDE, and obviously remove whatever I had to start with for optimization it would recompile everything. I remember in particular doing something like a fresh Gnome install, starting to use it and realizing I'd missed a USE flag for audio and having to re-compile all the Gnome apps to have them be able to use sound. Was fun, but brutal in terms of efficiency.