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I dislike the idea of a quiz to use the installer. As much as I hate to |
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admit it, I am a "newbie" to gentoo, to some degree. However, I did manage |
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to fairly easily install it by reading the handbook. It is pretty much just |
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following directions, being very time consuming(took me about 2-3 days to |
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get my first gentoo box up). I think personally, that a special guide should |
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be written for the installer detailing everything needed to be done. If you |
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are very insistant upon getting rid of the "newbies" in the IRC channel, and |
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insist on having some kind of quiz, I'd make a quiz to enter the IRC |
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channel. |
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Not to rant on, but my stance on gentoo, albeit against many of the |
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developers, is that it is a fast operating system. That is, in my view, the |
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only thing seperating it from other distros save for portage. Many people |
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like to tweak every last bit of performance out of gentoo, which is great! |
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However, I think gentoo should indeed be more user friendly. Don't get me |
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wrong-I CAN install gentoo, and edit configuration files, but it is very |
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time consuming, and not time efficent for me. I wish gentoo was very easy to |
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install(like redhat), and included an easy to use configuration tweaker |
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where you could EASILY change your cflags for basic optimizations for |
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specific processors(you could select p4, amd64, etc etc). You would of |
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course be able to manually edit it as well. The thing that I find so |
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daunting about linux, as compared to windows, is the fact that you have to |
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know what almost every single file does. Wanna change your sound card? You |
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have to know where /etc/alsa is. It is these kinds of things that frustrate |
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me. Don't get me wrong, I know MANY, if not all but me on this mailing list, |
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are opposed to catering to end users who don't want to have to memorize a 40 |
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page guide to know how to install gentoo in their head, but I think it would |
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be a good idea to have gentoo easy to configure. I'm not saying someone who |
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doesn't know how to install Windows will know how to setup and run a gentoo |
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installation, but I think it should be easier to run then it currently is. |
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On another side note I things that the thing that is blocking linux from |
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the end user are application installation, and driver installation. Come up |
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with an easy way to do both of these, and i'll never use win32 again :). |
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Again, I want to reidorate, I realize that the main focus of gentoo is to |
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cater to so called "power users" who know everything about Linux, and tweak |
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everything in it. I just wish that I could have a tweakable operating system |
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without reading 40 pages each time I installed it! |
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Sorry for the long rant :), |
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Mike |