• idunnololz@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      8
      ·
      1 year 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 😎

    • cyanarchy
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

      This, but unironically. Just slap -git on it and let 'er rip.

    • Tb0n3
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      3
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      1 year ago

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

  • aaronbieber@kbin.social
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    8
    ·
    1 year 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.

  • 0x4E4F
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    3
    ·
    1 year ago

    Extremely… cuz they can get some actual work done during those 8 hours.

  • Mickpyro@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    1
    ·
    1 year 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.

  • Magicalus@discuss.tchncs.de
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    1
    arrow-down
    2
    ·
    1 year ago

    Meanwhile I’m sitting here running it off an appimage I found on a dodgy website 3 weeks ago because I’m too lazy to properly install it.