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tokumei on Feb 28, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: Linux from Scratch

Never messed with LFS. I used Gentoo (and then Arch) when I had the luxury of more free time. Very fun to tinker with.

With Gentoo, waiting for your DE or web browser to compile was a great excuse to step away from the computer and go for a walk. The little things in life.

darkwater on Feb 28, 2022 [–]

or run "emerge world"[1] before going to sleep and wake up at 3AM to check if it didn't halt on some missing deps while updating KDE...

[1] tbh I don't rememeber the exact emerge syntax, it was almost 20 years ago!

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