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[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 27 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Gentoo on a netbook with an intel atom on less than 1GiB ram

I'm going to turn 30 before that thing has a functioning browser. It cost them 2 months when they decided neofetch was worth it for the meme

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.de 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Why not simply download more RAM?

[–] Solaris1789@jlai.lu 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You have to compile it which would take a few more years

[–] Localhorst86@feddit.de 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

oh, I forgot that everything needs to be compiled on gentoo.

I use arch btw.

[–] KISSmyOS@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

The good thing about Arch nowadays is, it's not so bad when X breaks anymore.

[–] programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 11 months ago

I installed gentoo on one of my old computers and it took two days of kernel compilation. When I got to the dwm desktop I played some doom and decided the computer will just work as a central server as it was just too old and the cpu couldn't keep up with firefox in binary form.

After that I just installed Alpine and got a similar, albeit slow, performance