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Comment by tclancy

3 years ago

Here in NH we have a group of people trying to compile their own. I never thought of them as distro hipsters, but it tracks.

My impression of these people is that they generally use very out-of-date versions, and they misunderstand/misuse configuration settings to the point that their builds are illogical for anyone's needs, despite their surface-level appeal upon skimming the manual & ancient mailing list messages. So the government performs efficiently for some very specific workloads, but generally lacks necessary features to run society at web scale.