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On recent hardware compiling everything from source doesn't give that much a of a performance boost. On older hardware (i586/i686 era) this was different. But in my opinion the hassle simply doesn't worth it anymore. My machine has plenty of unused resources and compilers nowadays do a really good job in optimizing the result.
Can't say anything about Nix OS. As far as I know it does some things different when it comes to configuration.
Agreed. The only reason I considered Gentoo is because my laptop is a potato.
Is it just a potato, or is it an ancient potato? Arch runs on fairly old hardware as long as it's 64 bits hardware. The oldest device I have must be from around 2014 and it runs okay.
Just a normal potato. i3-3120M and upgraded to 12gb ram. Next will be the SSD as it still has an HDD. Works pretty well for everyday use, although forget about gaming.
i3, 12 GB RAM, SSD ... wouldn't call this a potato ... 😆
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no SSD yet. and I just recently got an axtra 8gb stick of ram lol. so before that swap was used a ton and it was crawling. doesn't help that I use gnome, i guess (i'm not that good with WMs).
i guess gaming-wise it's a potato. lol.