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When pressing the power button makes you powerless (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Never had an update take 2 hours. Maybe if your using a computer from 2005.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I had an update take 3 and half hours on a 2019 laptop with a ryzen 5 3550h, 16gb of ddr4 ram and an nvme ssd.

So I moves to gentoo where if unlucky and qtwebengine needs to comiplie the update takes 5+ hours. 😌

[–] 0x4E4F 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You should use Void. Compile only the obscure stuff that is not in repo... or the proprietery stuff, but that's just repacking, so it takes minutes at worst.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I love gentoo and the process of compilation tho. The power of use flags is amazing once you learn how to use them.

[–] 0x4E4F 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I know, but it just takes way too much time. Don't have time for that currently.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

overnight compile.

[–] 0x4E4F 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

That is an option, and I have thought about that, but building my system would take an eternity that way. I just need a working system man 🀷.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For me it took 20 mins to get a bootable system and another 30 mins to get xorg and xmonad on it.

But eternity can mean diff to other people.

[–] 0x4E4F 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, that's not an eternity, but then I just have a working desktop, that's it. What about browsers, chat apps, IT apps I mught need (Remmina in particular), word processors, text editors, setting up things the way I'm used to, daemons...

And of course, setting up the DE, that takes time as well.

Nah, thanks, way past that stage I'm afraid. I have done it, and there were "yeiiii ☺️" moments, but this was long ago, I was in my early 20s. Now I'm in my late 30s and have a family, things are different πŸ˜‚. I'd rather spend that time with my son, doing things he likes, than me compiling stuff that's already been compiled 1000 times over by someone else.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

that's with browser and IT stuff

[–] [email protected] -4 points 11 months ago

What you meant to say: Windows ain't for poor people.