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submitted 6 months ago by velox_vulnus@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

My main laptop is dead, so I'm on a potato laptop with a 6th gen Intel i3 processor and 4GB of RAM. I have IceCat installed, but I really don't like the defaults it provides.

Maybe I am in the wrong here, but from the Arkenfox page, I've read that having way too many extension is bad - there's an unbelievable amount of these plugins. IceCat being on the older ESR version is a big no when it comes to security. Last but not the least, I want to create a separate, non-secure profile to use normal pages, but IceCat has hard-coded blocks on several websites.

And that is exactly why I'm looking to move to LibreWolf. But the issue is that there is no pre-built binaries available for my distro. I've waited the entire day for this browser, and I'm tired of having to come back to a frozen desktop, or build fails while waking from sleep.

I'm trying the build once again, and I just wanted to know how long it takes to build, so that I can leave it uninterrupted.

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[-] Efwis@lemmy.zip 20 points 6 months ago

First, this would be a better question to ask in a Linux specific community.

Second, Build time is really subjective to the computer and its hardware. There could be bottlenecks at the cpu/memory from the motherboard that will slow it down. It also depends on whether you’re spinning rust or using an ssd.

There are a lot of factors involved in the whole that makes it hard to definitively say how long something takes to build.

[-] devraza@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

But it’s still possible to give an estimate knowing a little bit about the hardware, right?

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 6 months ago

The missing number is drive speed, because 4GB ram are not nearly enough, swapping is necessary. But with fast moder drives (were pcie ssds a thing back then?) expect half a day

At that age cpu it's almost certainly a hard drive not ssd.

My guess is 1-2 days. 4gb RAM is going to thrash like hell

[-] Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 months ago

ssds are a really cheap upgrade, and have been for a while. My systems of similsr age have had ssd upgrades for about 5 years now. It'll likely be limited to sata speeds though.

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