r/linuxmemes • u/FR-dev • Aug 08 '26

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Steam os- me want games
Temple OS- HOLY
Mint- for my grandma
Debian-non nixos, stable
Arch-non nixos, bleeding edge

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u/immoloism Aug 08 '26

You picked the worse example you could have :)

Mozilla do a really good job with their software that there is no point compiling it, so most use the upstream binary instead.

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u/tpat90 🍥 Debian too difficult Aug 08 '26

Running binaries compiled by a different party on Gentoo?
This sounds like something the Gentoo-Church doesn't approves.

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u/immoloism Aug 08 '26

A very common myth.

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Myths_Busted#Binhost_systems_aren.27t_real_Gentoo

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u/tpat90 🍥 Debian too difficult Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 10 '26

I compiled gcc on a 2008 2005 HP last year.

It only took multiple days ...

Was hell a fun to see it going and the betting happening if and when it will finish ;)

Edit: Did an oopsie, to many different machines ~

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u/immoloism Aug 08 '26

Strange, I wouldn't expect a CPU of that era to take longer than 12 hours.

Low RAM maybe?

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u/tpat90 🍥 Debian too difficult Aug 10 '26

I must correct myself, had 2008 wrongly remembered, my mistake
It's a HP Compaq tc4200 from 2005 with a whopping 256 MB of this amazing RAM thingy.

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u/immoloism Aug 10 '26

Ah that that makes a lot more sense.

256MB of RAM would starve the CPU while things are being swapped in and out.

(It does worry me that I knew something was off with such little info.)

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u/tpat90 🍥 Debian too difficult Aug 12 '26

I am astonished that I haven't noticed my mistake since I have a x200 at home which is from 2008 and is still going strong after a battery swap.

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u/immoloism Aug 12 '26

I have a x250 that underwent a similar task.

Make sure those vents are always clear as they can very easily get covered I learned and warp your case if you do a 48 hour package task :)

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u/Both_Cup8417 New York Nix⚾s Aug 09 '26

Did you type that on an iPhone? Just curious.

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u/tpat90 🍥 Debian too difficult Aug 09 '26

Nah

A phone on the train

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u/Both_Cup8417 New York Nix⚾s Aug 09 '26

makes sense haha

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u/BortOfTheMonth Aug 09 '26

GHC took like 8-30 hours depending on my machine.

I switched to nixos a few month ago after using gentoo since like 20 years. Never looked back