I haven't touched SourceMage in over a decade, but I loved how the terminology made it feel like you're a wizard casting spells to build up everything.

I could never get it working 100% but if I can find a good burner laptop I might just have to give it a go again.

[–] Xenanthropy 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah it's honestly hard to get set up - we haven't had a new ISO in a solid decade so the only way to install currently is via tarball. Our installation guide though is pretty good, and we're always happy to help people getting it up-and-running :) I'm in the IRC 24/7 for the most part so i'm always available to assist. If you decide to, i'll see you in there! As for a burner laptop - you can install SMGL on just about any device (we have 32-bit support still!) I have SMGL installed on a few of my netbooks ;) ... compile times are less than savory though lol, 1+ day for glibc compilation, the misery...

(I will note though that the only huge downside to SMGL is that we don't have multilib support - 64-bit is 64-bit only, which means no native things like Steam that require 32-bit libs)

(( we have workarounds though, i've added flatpak to SMGL and steam runs perfect in it!))