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Ok so I've spent quite a bit of time in Arch Linux, currently using i3 gaps on a very old 2005 laptop which I got when my uncle bought a new one, aswell as on my desktop (with a KDE fallback)
While my laptop fares much better than it did with Vista (which it arrived with), I'm considering going balls deep on it and installing gentoo to cut down on whatever bloat might exist.
Is it actually worth reinstalling everything, making new configs, learning to use USE flags etc, or is it old beyond salvation?
It gets to like 60% cpu usage if I dare open waterfox, or mpv for that matter
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>>61280058
If it really is a shit top compiling everything is going to be hell. Not worth it
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gentoo isn't suitable for a machine that slow because of the compile times, installations and updates will take forever.
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>>61280101
thanks lads, I'll probably just use it for backup as is then
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>>61280101
Thats the sad irony about gentoo....all that freedom...but compiling takes time and new cpus are botnetted by Intel AMT and AMD PSP.
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