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Happy chimera user here. It feels fast in regular usage though I use ssh much more than desktop. What’s actually amazing about chimera is the musl + clang/llvm
by sidkshatriya 3y ago
Happy chimera user here. It feels fast in regular usage though I use ssh much more than desktop.
What’s actually amazing about chimera is the musl + clang/llvm/compiler-rt combination. It allows you to do all kinds of amazing things easily from a programming perspective.
The apk 3 package manager, build system (cbuild) is also excellent. Everything feels modern and clean. Package availability is still limited and you would probably need to compile many of your favourite packages from source but I would still highly recommend this distribution.
- LeFantome 3y ago“What’s actually amazing about chimera is the musl + clang/llvm/compiler-rt combination. It allows you to do all kinds of amazing things easily from a programming perspective.” Any examples?
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- Gur3n 3y agoIt's pretty hard to feel slow on modern hardware, especially for x86 (I don't mean Chimera is slow though, I haven't tried it yet.)
- i5-2520M 3y agoWindows easily manages to feel slow, especially 11 did in the early days. I wonder how they do it...
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 3y agoOn Void, installing clang results in a massive 120MB libLLVM-15.so along with a number of other hefty shared libaries. 50+ MB, 30+ MB and so on. As such, I have stuck with GCC which requires much less space. Is this any different on Chimera.
- gavinray 3y agoDo people really have such a violent reaction to using ~100MB of disk space for one of the most advanced compilers in the world? I have 2TB of internal SSD storage on my laptop, and I can buy extra TB's for $50 each. Why on earth would I balk at 100MB? Some webpages serve half of that in optimized images for crying out loud, lol.
- fransje26 3y agoTo get a bit of perspective, these peoples should be invited to briefly switch to windows, and to try installing the MSVC compiler...