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[–] 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Special Fuck You to:

  • clang
  • LibreOffice
  • Firefox
  • llvm

I only use dwm, so no idea how long it takes to compile KDE or Gentoo Gnome.

Everything else is so quick. Just those four take 20-30 minutes each.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 years ago

    Before I had a proper internet connection (had to ask permission to borrow a dial up account) I bought a magazine that had a picture of a cow on it saying that Larry the cow was different. It was a DVD image of the stage one mirror of this new fangled Gentoo thing.

    Learnt from the magazine how to install a bootloader and so on and then "bravely" typed emerge world into the terminal after configuring the list of all the packages I wanted. Including a full desktop (KDE I think but may have been Gnome). And Firefox. And Open Office. And some multimedia stuff I don't remember.

    On a Pentium ii.

    Took a week before I could do the next step :D

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