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Orethrius:
--- Quote from: Refalm ---I don't get it. Is it significantly faster if you compile everything for your architecture?
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Well, it's not significantly faster per se, but don't forget that you're talking to the guy that uses Fluxbox because it loads in two seconds rather than two MINUTES. The more performance I can squeeze out of my hardware, the better.
H_TeXMeX_H:
If you compile things are they faster ? Not really, at least for small programs with few graphics. Besides, most things are compiled for i386 (except Arch), so unless you have a really new processor it won't matter. The only time I've found it did matter noticibly was when compiling graphics intensive games.
WMD:
--- Quote from: Orethrius ---
--- Code: ---su -c emerge -auv world
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Did you say something? ;)
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You forgot something:
--- Code: ---su -c 'emerge -auv world'
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;)
7031:
I think you forgot the 'The Best' section for ubuntu and maybe SuSE. Maybe not SuSE but you get the idea.
Van Slanzar de Fanel:
As a linux newbie myself (dispite many years of trying to learn it), I am interested to find out what your recommendations would be for a good distro to use. Unfortunately, as a PC gamer, I'm stuck using windows, except for a few games that come out for linux, and I'm not planning on bying a Mac anytime soo. Personally, as I want to be using it somewhat regularly, I am only interested in installable distros and not live CDs, though they have their uses (I almost exclusively use linux fdisk when I have to muck around with HD partitions now). One major concern I have is while graphical tools are all well and good, I want to be able to really learn the ins and outs of linux, editing confs and rcs by hand and whatnot. So if you experts have any recommendations where I could go to start learning this, that would be great.
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