Linus wants an ARM Laptop!

[xyzzy]

Imagine going back to 1990 and thinking the Pinebook Pro is not powerful enough to be a developer machine for anyone.

I wish I had a better recollection of how long the 0.97.6 kernel took to compile on a 486DX-66 with 8 MB of RAM, which is probably the slowest machine I ever did kernel programming on, vs how long it takes to compile the far far larger 5.9.10 kernel on a Pinebook Pro.  Of course the former would have used a gcc 1.x compiler that's also much faster than the current gcc, which can do optimizations that were totally unfeasible back then.

I feel like it's not all that different.  Couple hours each.

Sure wish there was a "desktop" version of Buildroot or Yocto for the PBP.  These support cross-compilation as the normal development method, so it would be trivial to compile a new kernel on my Ryzen 3700X in less than a minute and then install the package on the PBP.  It doesn't seem like there's a way to cross-build a Manjaro package.