• A New GNU/Linux Machine: Status Report

    From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to All on Thu Dec 19 20:45:26 2024
    My new machine is approaching.

    I anticipate that, by working here and there and off and on,
    I should be finished with the installation by mid-March 2025.

    For one thing, I have over 400 packages to build according to
    the new machine specs.

    Now, I can hear all the distro lackeys exclaim: "WTF! I can
    install a GNU/Linux distro in 15 fucking minutes!"

    My answer lies within the common aphorism:

    Rome was not built in a day.

    Rome, the great capital of Western civilization stood for many
    centuries. Such a marvel indeed could not be built in a day.

    The same applies to a GNU/Linux distro.

    Only an ignoramus idiot would be content with what the distros
    offer.

    My new machine will replace one that is based on an Intel Core
    i7-4770, a CPU which was first released in 2013. But thanks to
    a custom GNU/Linux install, that "old" hardware can rival any
    more current machine -- and I have the benchmarks to prove it.

    Rome was not built in a day, and when I am finished my new machine
    will beat all comers for many years into the future.

    Customization and configuration are what make GNU/Linux the King.

    Microslop Winblows is but the welfare agent for the stupid.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!



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  • From pothead@21:1/5 to Farley Flud on Fri Dec 20 01:43:15 2024
    On 2024-12-19, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:
    My new machine is approaching.

    I anticipate that, by working here and there and off and on,
    I should be finished with the installation by mid-March 2025.

    For one thing, I have over 400 packages to build according to
    the new machine specs.

    Now, I can hear all the distro lackeys exclaim: "WTF! I can
    install a GNU/Linux distro in 15 fucking minutes!"

    My answer lies within the common aphorism:

    Rome was not built in a day.

    Rome, the great capital of Western civilization stood for many
    centuries. Such a marvel indeed could not be built in a day.

    The same applies to a GNU/Linux distro.

    Only an ignoramus idiot would be content with what the distros
    offer.

    My new machine will replace one that is based on an Intel Core
    i7-4770, a CPU which was first released in 2013. But thanks to
    a custom GNU/Linux install, that "old" hardware can rival any
    more current machine -- and I have the benchmarks to prove it.

    Rome was not built in a day, and when I am finished my new machine
    will beat all comers for many years into the future.

    Customization and configuration are what make GNU/Linux the King.

    Microslop Winblows is but the welfare agent for the stupid.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!



    By the time you finish this golden machine of yours it will be obsolete.
    Why the fuck does it take you 4 months to assemble a PC?
    Mine took a couple of hours.
    And booted up fine at POR.



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  • From Farley Flud@21:1/5 to Physfitfreak on Fri Dec 20 11:25:01 2024
    On Thu, 19 Dec 2024 15:03:11 -0600, Physfitfreak wrote:

    On 12/19/24 2:45 PM, Farley Flud wrote:
    Rome was not built in a day


    But didn't it fall, like, in a day? Wasn't a day before that like Rome
    is on its day one?


    You are overstretching the analogy.

    The message is that good things always take a while.



    Wait, first, to see whether Xeon crashes your os
    within about one minute of use after bootup :)


    It won't crash.

    If it does crash, then it would be sign that the Apocalypse is
    upon us.


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    Hail Linux! Hail FOSS! Hail Stallman!

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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 20 08:40:52 2024
    Le 2024-12-19 à 20:43, pothead a écrit :
    On 2024-12-19, Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> wrote:
    My new machine is approaching.

    I anticipate that, by working here and there and off and on,
    I should be finished with the installation by mid-March 2025.

    For one thing, I have over 400 packages to build according to
    the new machine specs.

    Now, I can hear all the distro lackeys exclaim: "WTF! I can
    install a GNU/Linux distro in 15 fucking minutes!"

    My answer lies within the common aphorism:

    Rome was not built in a day.

    Rome, the great capital of Western civilization stood for many
    centuries. Such a marvel indeed could not be built in a day.

    The same applies to a GNU/Linux distro.

    Only an ignoramus idiot would be content with what the distros
    offer.

    My new machine will replace one that is based on an Intel Core
    i7-4770, a CPU which was first released in 2013. But thanks to
    a custom GNU/Linux install, that "old" hardware can rival any
    more current machine -- and I have the benchmarks to prove it.

    Rome was not built in a day, and when I am finished my new machine
    will beat all comers for many years into the future.

    Customization and configuration are what make GNU/Linux the King.

    Microslop Winblows is but the welfare agent for the stupid.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!



    By the time you finish this golden machine of yours it will be obsolete.
    Why the fuck does it take you 4 months to assemble a PC?
    Mine took a couple of hours.
    And booted up fine at POR.

    Larry Pietraskiewicz will continue to tweak whatever shit hardware he
    buys for months on end in the hope of it running about 2% faster than
    some other cheap loser who bought the exact same hardware. He ignores
    the fact that for most people, it is a lot easier to simply buy better hardware.

    --
    CrudeSausage

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  • From DFS@21:1/5 to Lameass Larry Piet on Fri Dec 20 14:37:45 2024
    On 12/19/2024 3:45 PM, Lameass Larry Piet wrote:

    My new machine is approaching.

    So is age 50, and you and your wrinkly crapbox will have jack shit to
    show for it.


    I anticipate that, by working here and there and off and on,
    I should be finished with the installation by mid-March 2025.

    Make it Christmas 2025 - give yourself some breathing room to install
    all that hobbyist dreck.



    For one thing, I have over 400 packages to build according to
    the new machine specs.

    What an asshole.



    Now, I can hear all the distro lackeys exclaim: "WTF! I can
    install a GNU/Linux distro in 15 fucking minutes!"

    My answer lies within the common aphorism:

    Rome was not built in a day.

    Rome, the great capital of Western civilization stood for many
    centuries. Such a marvel indeed could not be built in a day.

    The same applies to a GNU/Linux distro.

    Only an ignoramus idiot would be content with what the distros
    offer.

    Only an incel loser would compile 400 (cr)apps for one computer.



    My new machine will replace one that is based on an Intel Core
    i7-4770, a CPU which was first released in 2013. But thanks to
    a custom GNU/Linux install, that "old" hardware can rival any
    more current machine -- and I have the benchmarks to prove it.

    No, you don't.

    Plus you'll snivel and whine and dismiss ANY benchmark besides that
    single SciMark benchmark that proves nothing.

    Gentoo is 37% faster my ass.


    Rome was not built in a day, and when I am finished my new machine
    will beat all comers for many years into the future.
    Customization and configuration are what make GNU/Linux the King.

    All dressed up and no one to blow.



    Microslop Winblows is but the welfare agent for the stupid.

    Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!


    Your time would be FAR better spent laying horizontally and blubbering
    on a psychologist's sofa.

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  • From =?UTF-8?Q?St=C3=A9phane?= CARPENTIE@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 20 21:18:15 2024
    Le 20-12-2024, Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> a écrit :

    The message is that good things always take a while.

    Is it your way to explain why it'll take you other decades to have a
    working computer?

    It won't crash.

    Agreed, it can't, because to be able to crash, it needs to start first.

    If it does crash,

    It won't. See above.

    then it would be sign that the Apocalypse is upon us.

    We are safe.

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  • From CrudeSausage@21:1/5 to All on Fri Dec 20 20:16:00 2024
    Le 2024-12-20 à 18:21, Physfitfreak a écrit :
    On 12/20/24 5:25 AM, Farley Flud wrote:
    You are overstretching the analogy.

    The message is that good things always take a while.


    And my message is that good things might disappear within one minute. My
    Xeon computer crashes on linux within about one minute of use. It never crashes with Winblows on it.

    Somehow, that demonstrates how great Linux is.

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    CrudeSausage

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