Comments by "Winnetou17" (@Winnetou17) on "" video.

  1. To be fair, from what I heard, it was kind of bad. First of all, entirely single threaded and thus very slow. It's why systemd was so successful initially.
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  2.  @dimalinux  They are not GPL licensed, like the original coreutils are. Which means that all the big firms will eventually make their own versions and NOT distribute the source code, but slowly take over market share, to force you to use them.
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  3.  @istvantorok4819  To be fair, at least in Windows 10, if you tune it just a bit, you can have a very good and fast system too. Before switching to Linux, I had Windows 10 on my laptop. At one moment I reached exactly 100 days of uptime, at which point I made a screenshot then went to install the updates and restart, to not risk being that guy who gets a st pid ransomware or something.
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  4. I'm on Gentoo. It's a distro that I can't fully recommend to somebody without knowing that person. In general you'd know best if Gentoo is for you or not. That being said, I'm on it for almost one year and a half (from Dec 2023-Jan 2024) and had no significant problems of any sort. No system instability at all. Gentoo is very good for learning and very good for control and customization. Because of the use flags, you can customize what an individual program/app/package has or doesn't, allowing you to enable experimental or esoteric features or remove things you don't want or don't need. It also allows you to have the binaries optimized for your specific CPU, which can help performance. If you happen to want to have patches for some programs, you can streamline that with Gentoo, so those programs are updated with the rest of the programs, while still having your patches applied. One thing I have to add ... the compilations are really exagerrated IMO. The laptop I'm using is almost 9 years old. It's from 2016. It has a 4 core Intel i7-6700HQ CPU. While it was high-end in 2016, now it's equivalent to a dual core CPU. It does help that I have 64 GB of RAM. Still, knowing that I don't have a fast system, the only program that's annoying to upgrade/compile is Chromium. Last compiles took about 14 hours, when not doing anything else (I just left it running while I went out). Everything else, no exceptions, takes up to 2 hours. Firefox is between 60 and 80 minutes. I'd say that, on average, I have about 1 (one) round of updates per week that takes more than 30 minutes (for everything that's new, not just a single program) and that's while I'm doing something else, like watching YT and commenting (which is pretty lightweight, true). I'm sure that if I had more Chromium based browsers, each would take that 14 hours to compile. It's true that I've also been lazy to dig deeper into ways I can speed it up. And I don't have KDE or GNOME, which I know are quite big, so those might add a bit of time compiling too. Still, if you have something low end or simply don't want to deal with the bigger compiles, there's binary packages. Not for all, but the browsers and bigger packages in general have a precompiled binary from Gentoo.
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