Yeah, it just it might take a long time depending on your hardware. Stage 3 tarball installation took more than 2 days on my netbook (years ago). I don’t want to imagine compiling LibreOffice on that hardware. :)
It really doesnt take as long as you would think. I did it on a chromebook. Kernel and webrowser are the only things that take awhile and its only a few hours. When i did it on my gaming desktop it was barely any time.
I actually haven’t tried Gentoo on my main machine for a really long time so I can only guess. With 6 cores 12 threads it should be fast enough I think. Gotta admit I’m surprised that it does that well on a Chromebook.
Oh the temptation! Nowadays I’m actually tempted by Void but it seems my compiling times would not be bad with Gentoo either. Though currently I have no reason to change my setup unless it’s severely broken but I gotta keep these in mind.
I was always on the lazy side of the spectrum and never really had good enough machines until recently so Gentoo was always too much wait time for me and I never really used it on my main machine. I like compiling my own stuff and I do have a good enough machine now, so exploring Gentoo again might be my next step, sadly I don’t have time for OS-level changes currently.
Gentoo is easy and user friendly
Yeah, it just it might take a long time depending on your hardware. Stage 3 tarball installation took more than 2 days on my netbook (years ago). I don’t want to imagine compiling LibreOffice on that hardware. :)
You can download binary blobs nowadays… Firefox, LibreOffice without any delays.
That’s actually nice to know. Though if I’m gonna use Gentoo, I’m gonna compile everything.But I wouldn’t do that without a really beefy machine too.
It really doesnt take as long as you would think. I did it on a chromebook. Kernel and webrowser are the only things that take awhile and its only a few hours. When i did it on my gaming desktop it was barely any time.
I actually haven’t tried Gentoo on my main machine for a really long time so I can only guess. With 6 cores 12 threads it should be fast enough I think. Gotta admit I’m surprised that it does that well on a Chromebook.
oh no compiling kernel and webbrowser on a chromebook took over a day and was incredibly painful. Sorry for the confusion.
No problem! Kinda disappointed but they’re Chromebooks, even if it was an Intel one, it’s still slow. Should’ve suspected. :)
I have Ryzen 3700X and it’s doing fine… not to mention I have a lot of uptime, and it can build on the background.
Oh the temptation! Nowadays I’m actually tempted by Void but it seems my compiling times would not be bad with Gentoo either. Though currently I have no reason to change my setup unless it’s severely broken but I gotta keep these in mind.
I skipped Arch, went straight to Gentoo with OpenRC and dwm.
You can’t convince me to go back to binary blobs.
I was always on the lazy side of the spectrum and never really had good enough machines until recently so Gentoo was always too much wait time for me and I never really used it on my main machine. I like compiling my own stuff and I do have a good enough machine now, so exploring Gentoo again might be my next step, sadly I don’t have time for OS-level changes currently.