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can someone who runs arch btw on weak hardware, like dual-core U-series i5 and such, tell me how they're handling AUR and friends? every time I bring that up I get downvotes as if I'm some MICROS~1 agent paid to besmirch arch btw's good name and whatnot...
the idea that I hafta build and compile shit on a puny dual-core in 2026 is fucking ludicrous to me, never mind the bloat and cruft from all the build tools and deps for every possible stack. so what obvious solution am I missing? like, how do you handle a full system upgrade, say you got like ten things from AUR in addition to regular packages, what does that look like?
Back in 2015, I was using Arch on a single core Intel Atom 1.5GHz processor with 1GiB of RAM
Most packages came from binary packages, and the AUR was the exception when I needed something specific outside of the main repos
One suggestion is to look for
-binversions of the packages you want. Those are precompiled and should install only marginally slower than a regular pacman package.first time I heard of this, thanks. so running it thusly it's no different than a copr or apt repo?
Not quite as that its user-created and submitted.
But yeah lots of packages have a -bin counterpart that will install a lot quicker than compiling it for yourself.
You can use an AUR mirror repo to avoid compiling. Chaotic looks like the most popular one.
thanks, this looks good, gonna try it out with my next build