[charliebwrites]

Every time I see this, I upvote it

I’m sure it’s different than it was when I was a teenager but building Linux from scratch was the thing that got me into computers as a kid

It shows that computers can be accessible _and modifiable_ at the lowest levels

[necovek]

Having done it as a teenager as well when it showed up in 1999 myself, that's probably the sweet point when we are smart (and persistent) enough to figure problems out, but also have enough time to see it through! :D

[shevy-java]

It is a bit different indeed - more things to compile nowadays. Things such as LLVM take quite some time to compile too. cmake and meson is also needed these days.

Other than that it still works fairly well.