anyone here know how to use "linux"

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@vaporeon_ I don't mind the idea of potentially running gentoo on this machine though

[vaporeon_@glaceon.social]

@aeva Good luck! (Let me know if you want any advice, I like talking about Gentoo, I don't know whether you've installed Gentoo before or not and I don't want to be condescending by explaining things that you already know)

In case it helps, I followed this article to set up building binary packages on the faster machine and installing them on the slower machine: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Gentoo_Binary_Host_Quickstart

Problem is that that requires an existing Gentoo machine, though... Or doing some stuff with Docker on a machine that runs some other distro, I guess

But compiling on a Core 2 Duo itself is 100% possible if you're OK with letting big compiles (like Clang and GCC) run overnight

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@vaporeon_ I used to main gentoo, but that was probably around 2005 give or take. The main thing I remember is foss project maintainers tend to get really annoyed when you report bugs that were caused by building with -O3 😅

I don't mind having multi day long compilation jobs to install or update packages, I know to plan accordingly. I wouldn't mind pointers on how to get the most out of modern gentoo though.

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

alright, round one of upgrading old LTS ubuntu studio to slightly less old LTS ubuntu studio complete, and the computer is still operable! now for round two 😎

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

this is the computer i'm trying to revive btw

[the_t@glaceon.social]

@aeva wow, you got one of those keyboards without any letters on the keys... fancy...

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

the piano was probably new in 2000. i built the now-repurposed computer in 2011. it's funny how differently these things age

[c0dec0dec0de@hachyderm.io]

@The_T @aeva its amazing what you can do with only A through G keys!

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@c0dec0dec0de @The_T @aeva You can spell BACH for a start :-)

[aeva@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@TomF @c0dec0dec0de @The_T well, BAC, at least

[tomf@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@aeva @c0dec0dec0de @The_T It's the one musical notation joke I know:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BACH_motif