
On Tue, 1 Jul 2025 at 10:24, D. Hugh Redelmeier via Talk <talk@lists.gtalug.org> wrote:
Clear Linux, as I understand it (not necessarily accurate), was a showcase for optimizations
I think Gentoo would also fall into that category. I used Gentoo on a laptop many years ago but found that I spent a fair amount of time deciding which "switches" to set for optimising the system and individual packages. (I suppose I could have just taken the defaults and left it at that.) Also, I think the CPU spent far more cycles "recompiling the world" for updates that affected large portions of the system than it did doing actual useful work :-) Though for the effort, you can end up with a very lean and efficient system, tailored to your liking. https://www.gentoo.org/get-started/about/ -- Scott