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My mother in law wanted me to give tech support on the pirated copy of Windows ME a "friend" installed on her computer because I was the one who gave her my old tower.
Q. What's the difference between Windows Millennium and a hole in the head?

A. You might be able to demonstrate that a hole in the head is a necessary upgrade.
 

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Gentoo is the Linux that recompiles the kernel on every boot to make sure it's optimized for the computer it's running on.
 
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So reboot, and Gen3; reboot, and Gen4; etc.

I guess the hardware could be being swapped out between every reboot you perform.
 

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Gentoo is the Linux that recompiles the kernel on every boot to make sure it's optimized for the computer it's running on.
But to be even more optimized it should recompile the kernal every time you launch a program.
 

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Gentoo is real, it's the geeky version of Linux that Linux geeks think is too geeky. It is close to a pure source distro as you can get. All the packages are supposed to be source packages, recompiled at install, but apparently they're slack and do some binaries.

The infinite regress of recompile after boot is avoided by having a complete compile toolchain and source in the boot fs.

Arch is for weaksauce soft bois.
 

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I'm a little ticked off that I'm expected to maintain an inetpub directory on my computer, thank you very much Microsoft.
Microsoft can't build a good operating system, never could.

Pretty much this.

I HAVE had conversations online about operating systems!

I feel like whoever took that screenshot doesn't know anyone who uses Arch Linux... 😣
They use "Arch, btw". :)

I feel like you could toss a tennis ball 100 times and hit someone who doesn't know anyone who uses Arch Linux at least 99 of those times.
Probably, more likely to hit someone who knows someone who has used Fedora or Ubuntu.

You misspelled Gentoo.
Ha, ha ha ha ha HA!


Gentoo is real, it's the geeky version of Linux that Linux geeks think is too geeky. It is close to a pure source distro as you can get. All the packages are supposed to be source packages, recompiled at install, but apparently they're slack and do some binaries.
What's that one command that recompiles everything? something "emerge world"?

The infinite regress of recompile after boot is avoided by having a complete compile toolchain and source in the boot fs.
Which is totally whack!

Arch is for weaksauce soft bois.
s/weaksauce\ soft\ bois/femboys\ and\ trans\ girls

Gentoo user:


Arch user:


Fedora user in Second Life:

mar_29_2022_002 by cronocloudcreeggan, on Flickr

Also my router, a linksys 9450 is going bonkers, and for some reason having trouble maintaining wifi output, I've seen 1000ms pings, now and again from the next room, when it is normally 1ms or 2ms. Also it, and the oooold wumc710 bridges (to reduce wireless clutter) never played nice with each other. I would have replaced the bridges years ago, but Linksys (and pretty much everyone else) stopped making inexpensive bridges. Now you have to go mesh because the extender satellites often do have ethernet ports so can fill in for a bridge, which costs more money. It doesn't help everyone uses wifi now. I tried channel switching and it helped a little bit....sometimes, but still have the problems. I have to reboot it pretty much every day to keep wifi working. Linksys totally went to hell once Cisco bought them and have stayed there even after they were sold to Belkin. C'mon Linksys, just give us proper blue equipment in the proper classic stackable form factor. There are reasons the BEFW11S4 and WRT54 became as ubiquitous and well loved as they were.
 
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Gentoo is the Linux that recompiles the kernel on every boot to make sure it's optimized for the computer it's running on.
It's also a meme a, when someone has even simple computer problem to tell them to. INSTALL GENTOO
 
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I asked Chat GPT for an "Image of the average Arch user. "

And it gave me this dude.


But it does not fit the above meme, so I followeded up with "OK, now do the same image but make it 100% more trans" .

 

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I asked Chat GPT for an "Image of the average Arch user. "

And it gave me this dude.

That's a Debian user.

But it does not fit the above meme, so I followeded up with "OK, now do the same image but make it 100% more trans" .

Now THAT's an Arch user!
 
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I wish to see one of these Gentoo users.