diff --git a/projects/nodejs.org/package.yml b/projects/nodejs.org/package.yml
index 0edc741b55..b0517592ae 100644
--- a/projects/nodejs.org/package.yml
+++ b/projects/nodejs.org/package.yml
@@ -26,8 +26,7 @@ interprets:
 build:
   dependencies:
     python.org: ~3.9
-    linux:
-      gnu.org/gcc: '*'
+    gnu.org/gcc: 14 # doesn't like llvm on linux, and darwin/aarch64 has atomics issues in 25
   script:
     # the nodejs build doesn't like mixing -shared and -pie
     - run: