Am Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 07:39:03PM -0500 schrieb Dale: > whiteman808 wrote: > > How does situation look in binary-based distros like Debian, Arch? Is > > rsyncing old Debian or Arch installation to PC with new processor or > > motherboard and configuring hardware-specific stuff sufficient? > > > > > > > I haven't used those in ages. Unless something has changed, they are > always ready for pretty much any hardware. When you install those, they > are set to a common setting for pretty much any CPU in that arch. > Basically and amd64 install should work with any amd64 CPU. This is why > some run Gentoo. In some cases having settings specific to a CPU can > result in code running faster.
I just read about using a binary distro with a more modern baseline. One post said that a lot of software already has built-in support for that. So even if you use a well-hung distro like debian whose baseline is, say v2, then there is still userland software that detects the hardware and dynamically loads proper code paths, like blender, ffmpeg etc. -- Grüße | Greetings | Salut | Qapla’ Please do not share anything from, with or about me on any social network. Rather to have a good position than a good job.
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