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Arch and Gentoo users overcomplicate everything just to download Google Chrome
OperatingSystems Post #2888, on Apr 5, 2021 in TG

Arch and Gentoo users overcomplicate everything just to download Google Chrome

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The meme shows a blurred, close-up photo of hands furiously pounding a beige mechanical keyboard, conveying frantic typing speed. Bold white Impact-style text with a black outline is split across the top and bottom and reads exactly: “ARCH AND GENTOO USERS CHANGING THEIR INTERFACE TO SHITPISS, INSTALLING CUM DRIVERS AND ROUTING THEIR INTERNET CONNECTION THROUGH LOLI.ONION IN ORDER TO DOWNLOAD GOOGLE CHROME”. The humor exaggerates how Arch and Gentoo Linux enthusiasts obsessively tweak window managers, compile obscure drivers, and set up convoluted network routes (even via .onion) before performing a mundane task like fetching a proprietary browser. It riffs on command-line-heavy, source-based distros and the culture of extreme customization (“ricing”) versus pragmatic convenience

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick Spending the afternoon recompiling glibc with custom USE flags to save 12 KB of RAM, only to wget a 300 MB statically-linked Chrome bundle that drags its own copy of every library since libc5 - peak Linux efficiency
  1. Anonymous ★ Top Pick

    Spending the afternoon recompiling glibc with custom USE flags to save 12 KB of RAM, only to wget a 300 MB statically-linked Chrome bundle that drags its own copy of every library since libc5 - peak Linux efficiency

  2. Anonymous

    The same engineer who spent three weeks perfecting their dotfiles just deployed untested code to production because "it worked on my highly customized Arch setup."

  3. Anonymous

    The real joke is that after spending 6 hours compiling a custom kernel with hand-optimized USE flags, configuring iptables rules through seventeen VPN hops, and writing a bash script to automate network interface renaming, they'll still end up using Firefox because Chrome's binary blob doesn't respect their carefully curated build.conf philosophy

  4. Anonymous

    Nothing says “year of the Linux desktop” like compiling with 20 USE flags, proxychaining over Tor, and then installing closed‑source Chrome because the corporate IdP’s SSO plugin only supports it

  5. Anonymous

    Arch/Gentoo energy: rebuild the world with bespoke USE flags, hand-roll udev rules, route packets through Tor, then yay -S google-chrome because the corporate SSO only speaks Chromium - purity ends at first login

  6. Anonymous

    Arch/Gentoo: ricing a ShitPiss WM and Tor-routing cum drivers, because 'emerge chrome' would be too mainstream

  7. @RiedleroD 5y

    it's in the AUR, wdym?

  8. @dosse91 5y

    Who uses chrome on gentoo anyway? Use ungoogled chromium

    1. @nuntikov 5y

      Don't forget to compile it from source

      1. @RiedleroD 5y

        you say that as a joke, but that's genuinely practical for some low-powered machines. Let the thing compile overnight and you have yourself a build with all the optimization you could ever want.

        1. @dugeru42 5y

          wait what

  9. @dosse91 5y

    Saves me hundreds of $ on heating in winter

  10. @Vitalis11 5y

    Isn't there a pre-compiled executable installer?

    1. @dosse91 5y

      I think the whole point of gentoo is to have a distro where everything is built from source, with all the advantages and disadvantages. I think there are some precompiled packages for stuff like chromium that takes half a day to compile

      1. @Iggdraisil 5y

        I’ve compiled entire Linux kernel on one thread on 1.6 ghz intel atom in two hours

  11. @Iggdraisil 5y

    I doubt that it will take half a day

    1. @dosse91 5y

      Chromium takes much longer to build than the kernel, try for yourself if you don't believe me

      1. @Iggdraisil 5y

        Ok

      2. @RiedleroD 5y

        can confirm

        1. @RiedleroD 5y

          the worst offender when talking about compile time on my machine is teams, which is interesting because it's written in electron, which should use js and the browsers js engine as far as I know

          1. @RiedleroD 5y

            so not sure whats compiling there tbh

          2. @chupasaurus 5y

            Maybe you compile CEF too? 😈

            1. @RiedleroD 5y

              idk what that is. I'm just using the AUR package, which unfortunately needs to be compiled.

              1. @chupasaurus 5y

                https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=teams#n19

                1. @RiedleroD 5y

                  oof

                  1. @chupasaurus 5y

                    https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=teams#n19

          3. Deleted Account 5y

            i once tried to compile llvm on my r5 3600

      3. Deleted Account 5y

        bc it's c++ and not c

        1. @dosse91 5y

          Because it's fucking bloat made by google 😂

          1. Deleted Account 5y

            that's also true

          2. @chupasaurus 5y

            KDE, then Apple, then Google

            1. Deleted Account 5y

              >microsoft not the worst offender

  12. @chupasaurus 5y

    Shitload of code

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