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I'm sorry, this is just wrong. I've never heard of anyone absolutely needing to compile anything, especially the kernel, on a mainstream Linux distro (e.g. Ubu

I'm sorry, this is just wrong. I've never heard of anyone absolutely needing to compile anything, especially the kernel, on a mainstream Linux distro (e.g. Ubuntu) in ages. Plus, if your graphics card is Nvidia, you don't get to compile anything: the driver is a binary blob (only the shim is compiled).

smcl 4y ago
I have literally experienced this, I'm not sure how you can dismiss it as "just wrong"
- midoridensha 4y ago
  What, exactly, have you experienced?
AdamJacobMuller 4y ago
I ran gentoo, from stage1 ~amd64. I compiled everything from scratch. I know I did it in hard mode.
- midoridensha 4y ago
  Gentoo is NOT a mainstream distro.