After using https://github.com/casey/just in a medium sized project, I wholly recommend anyone even slightly frustrated with Makefiles to switch to this.
C++ : C :: Just : Make
More sensible defaults, fewer footguns, just as expressive (pardon the pun), but still nearly the same syntax and paradigms so you don't have to learn a completely new scripting language.
The biggest downside, however, is that it's not installed by default on many systems and it's not in the official repos of some major distros. If that's a dealbreaker, stick with Make.
When it comes to how sluggish a system feels due to its disk, it's much more useful to measure the read latency and throughput of random reads because that's what the system is doing: you read a lot of sectors randomly when you boot or start chromium.
Note that the sample size is just 1, so I wouldn't place value on any single benchmark (it could just be that they chose their USB disk and SD card poorly or it was too cloudy that day). This is evident in my URL's hdparm result being wildly different from yours.
Reddit search is somehow worse than a simple `WHERE markdown LIKE '%query%' ORDER BY upvotes DESC` so you can understand where that sentiment comes from.
C++ : C :: Just : Make
More sensible defaults, fewer footguns, just as expressive (pardon the pun), but still nearly the same syntax and paradigms so you don't have to learn a completely new scripting language.
The biggest downside, however, is that it's not installed by default on many systems and it's not in the official repos of some major distros. If that's a dealbreaker, stick with Make.