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Had to install Arch recently because it would help pad word count. Normally I wouldn't pick it because it takes so long to install for an experience that doesn't feel different enough to warrant that time. But I had to for uni so I thought people here might appreciate my attempt at making a pretty desktop. If anyone has tips with Gnome on here feel free to fire away aswell.

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[-] SakuraCosmos@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

I wanted to do Gentoo but compile times didn't count towards hours. And you can't really get a lot of words from "I waited 8 hours for Firefox to build."

[-] AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world -1 points 9 months ago

And you can’t really get a lot of words from “I waited 8 hours for Firefox to build.”

You actually can if you describe the build process and how emerge works, how you can customize the packages with Gentoo's USE flags etc...

[-] SakuraCosmos@programming.dev 4 points 9 months ago

Yea but Arch has all of that already. I can't write about Portage outside of "It builds for your cpu. Which is great but everything is built for am64 anyways so it isn't worth the wait time" which I did. Sure you could write about use flags but it's university work and I atleast value some of my free time.

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