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submitted 1 year ago by H2207@lemmy.world to c/linux@lemmy.ml

Screenshot of QEMU VM showing an ASCII Gentoo Logo + system info

I followed Mental Outlaw's 2019 guide and followed the official handbook to get up-to-date instructions and tailored instructions for my system, the process took about 4 hours however I did go out for a nice walk while my kernel was compiling. Overall I enjoyed the process and learnt a lot about the Linux kernel while doing it.

I'm planning on installing it to my hardware soon, this was to get a feel for the process in a non-destructive way.

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[-] constantokra@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

It's fluff these fays if you're talking about optimizing for speed... unless you're using very specific hardware for a specific purpose. But if you want to compile in support for something you want to be able to do that most people wouldn't need, then yeah it's a real advantage.

[-] Pantherina@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

I am not sure anymore. There are two Appimages of Gimp at minimum. All are unofficial, but this one is incredibly fast.

On my regular Laptop the Lava render is TWICE as fast as the other versions of GIMP, Flatpak or even from the arch repos.

I heard this is because it uses Arch libraries instead of being compiled to run on this system. Not sure if this is true, but its crazy how fast it is. Poorly not maintained anymore, but now I wonder how fast a system could be if every app was compiled like that.

[-] constantokra@lemmy.one 1 points 1 year ago

That's interesting. I'll have to check it out.

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