Comment by nforgerit
3 years ago
Joined 18 years ago. Still compiling my KDE (but should finish soon). Then will take care of Firefox. My year of the linux desktop will be 2025. Great times ahead!
3 years ago
Joined 18 years ago. Still compiling my KDE (but should finish soon). Then will take care of Firefox. My year of the linux desktop will be 2025. Great times ahead!
I still have nightmares about building OpenOffice.
And yeah, oh boy, KDE. The only half-decent (actually worked, didn't glitch out or crash constantly, didn't assume you had memorized all the switches for the equivalent command-line tools, actually had all the features that anyone who used such programs would have called MVP-tier) GUI CD burning program on Linux in the early to mid '00s was a KDE program, (K3B, I think it was called?) and it'd drag in half of KDE if you installed it, so, would take hours to compile. Ugh. Here I am just wanting to mostly use Windowmaker and some GTK programs, and I've gotta compile kde-libs because I burn music CDs or isos sometimes.
Yeah, it probably wasn't until later when they broke up KDE into more modular packages, and that mess went away. Personally, though, although it took a long time to compile, KDE worked just fine on my machine.
OpenOffice? I think I did it a few times before switching to the binary package.
k3b was awesome - thanks for that memory!
Yeah same, Gentoo made me switch to xmonad :)
Just kidding of course. Gentoo people, you taught me so much about Linux, Operating Systems in general and made me start reading docs in their primary language to get the newest information (I’m German). You taught me so much, I’ll always keep fond memories about Gentoo though I moved on.