I know running Gentoo is labour intensive and for the most part unnecessary. Something still draws me back and every now and then there’s a fresh install.
Exactly. I’ve been up for 27 hours, but I finally have a booting Gentoo install now. 😃
Gentoo installs are not that bad these days. However, back in 2005, it would take, like, a day or so to compile the kernel on my old Pentium M Thinkpad. I would run through the install, start compiling the kernel, and go to sleep/work/whatever. I would check on it periodically to see if anything went wrong, and eventually it would get to the point where I could reboot and find out I messed something up and had to start over. That was like a week, and then I installed Ubuntu. 😂
This is probably an old meme but still completely true with Gentoo. :)
I know running Gentoo is labour intensive and for the most part unnecessary. Something still draws me back and every now and then there’s a fresh install.
Exactly. I’ve been up for 27 hours, but I finally have a booting Gentoo install now. 😃
Gentoo installs are not that bad these days. However, back in 2005, it would take, like, a day or so to compile the kernel on my old Pentium M Thinkpad. I would run through the install, start compiling the kernel, and go to sleep/work/whatever. I would check on it periodically to see if anything went wrong, and eventually it would get to the point where I could reboot and find out I messed something up and had to start over. That was like a week, and then I installed Ubuntu. 😂
Oh the useless hours spent compiling Firefox…
I still remember compiling LibreOffice for 2 days. :)