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On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Chris Stankevitz |
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<chrisstankevitz@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Gentoo is the best distribution I have used (I haven't used too many: |
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> ubuntu, fedora, gentoo). I love the USE flags. I love watching (and |
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> questioning) what is going to be installed. I love emerge. |
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> Supposedly gentoo lacks being able to have a system "just work" |
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> without thinking about anything. But in my experience on linux, this |
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> simply isn't the case anywhere. With ubuntu, for example, I had |
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> trouble with sound and ethernet cards that I could never figure out... |
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> and the kind of answers I get on their forums drive me insane ("my |
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> uncle once said that his cousin typed this magical command and it |
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> worked fine for a little while so maybe try that"). |
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That's how I felt, too, in 2003 or 2004 when I first installed Gentoo, |
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and I've been using it ever since and still feel the same way. I've |
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tried other distros but Gentoo feels the most natural to me. I'm okay |
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with more responsibility in exchange for more control over my system. |
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Yeah, sometimes it makes you think about what you're doing more than |
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some other distros, but I don't see that as a bad thing. Thinking is |
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fun. |