it depends on what you mean by bootstrap; if you mean compile from source on another linux distribution, it does not make a difference (python is not a part of the stage0 bootstrap path)

if you mean bootstrap absolutely from scratch, python is one of the smaller issues, it builds very simply and has minimal and trivial dependencies that you’re likely going to need already (autotools, optionally compression libraries - zlib, bz2, zstd, expat, openssl, sqlite, libffi, on most setups also libedit or readline, but that’s optional too)

chimera works fine on a laptop (i’m running it on a latest panther lake laptop and everything works as expected)

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