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Re: A New GNU/Linux Machine: Status Report

Subject Re: A New GNU/Linux Machine: Status Report
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
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From CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge>
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Date 2024-12-20 08:40 -0500

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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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A New GNU/Linux Machine: Status Report Farley Flud <ff@linux.rocks> - 2024-12-19 20:45 +0000
  Re: A New GNU/Linux Machine: Status Report Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-12-19 15:03 -0600
    Re: A New GNU/Linux Machine: Status Report Farley Flud <fsquared@fsquared.linux> - 2024-12-20 11:25 +0000
      Re: A New GNU/Linux Machine: Status Report Stéphane CARPENTIER <sc@fiat-linux.fr> - 2024-12-20 21:18 +0000
      Re: A New GNU/Linux Machine: Status Report Physfitfreak <physfitfreak@gmail.com> - 2024-12-20 17:21 -0600
        Re: A New GNU/Linux Machine: Status Report CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-20 20:16 -0500
  Re: A New GNU/Linux Machine: Status Report pothead <pothead@snakebite.com> - 2024-12-20 01:43 +0000
    Re: A New GNU/Linux Machine: Status Report CrudeSausage <crude@sausa.ge> - 2024-12-20 08:40 -0500
    Re: A New GNU/Linux Machine: Status Report Joel <joelcrump@gmail.com> - 2024-12-20 11:43 -0500
  Re: A New GNU/Linux Machine: Status Report DFS <guhnoo-basher@linux.advocaca> - 2024-12-20 14:37 -0500

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