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
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
Why not simply download more RAM?
You have to compile it which would take a few more years
oh, I forgot that everything needs to be compiled on gentoo.
I use arch btw.
The good thing about Arch nowadays is, it’s not so bad when X breaks anymore.
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