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I'm a Windows guy since forever and I recently got into selfhosting. So far its a blast! Are posts about that welcome here?

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[โ€“] Chaser@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

How does Gentoo work for you? Is it true, that an update takes like a week, because you have to compile everything from scratch?

[โ€“] Shimitar@downonthestreet.eu 1 points 14 minutes ago

It's a myth.

Yes it takes longer, but specialy on headless server updates are pretty fast

Big boys like LibreOffice Firefox have also pre built binaries if you so prefer as well ..

I use Gentoo since amd k6-400 MHz times so today build times feel like no wait at all