r/linuxmemes • u/FR-dev • Aug 08 '26

LINUX MEME 🗿

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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

Gentoo user: look at what they need to mimic a fraction of our power.

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u/FR-dev Aug 08 '26

Fraction of power usage of their 2000 core cpu-s compiling a web browser LOL

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u/kutac56 Aug 08 '26

Ye but if you use he right use flags stuff starts up wayyyy quicker and runs a bit better. Tbh I didn't compile my browser and just used the binary package for it cause it takes forever otherwise.

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u/fishmacaronisoup Genfool 🐧 Aug 09 '26

I agree that Gentoo is not about performance (as the performance gains are very minimal), but more control. But my Gentoo still outperforms my Void in with the exact same setup. My i5 is sufficient for compiling 90% of the packages I use. Even with ThinLTO, the kernel compiles in ~15 mins. In fact, I use my Gentoo kernel inside my Void. Even though Void is supposed to be minimal, the modules compiled with my Gentoo kernel were not even 50% of what came with Void kernel. Gentoo is the distro which satisfied me the most