Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.ca to linuxmemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoHe wasn't ready for that distrolemmy.caimagemessage-square16linkfedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
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minus-squareatmur@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 months agoWhen CPUs were a lot slower you could genuinely get noticeable performance improvements by compiling packages yourself, but nowadays the overhead from running pre-compiled binaries is negligible. Hell, even Gentoo optionally offers binary packages now.
minus-squareWalnutLum@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 months agoMost of the reason to build your own packages is a form of runtime assurance - to know what your computer is running is 100% what you intend. At least as a guix user that’s what I tell myself.
When CPUs were a lot slower you could genuinely get noticeable performance improvements by compiling packages yourself, but nowadays the overhead from running pre-compiled binaries is negligible.
Hell, even Gentoo optionally offers binary packages now.
Most of the reason to build your own packages is a form of runtime assurance - to know what your computer is running is 100% what you intend.
At least as a guix user that’s what I tell myself.