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From: James Homuth <james@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 18:29:48
Message-Id: 003601c99452$5657bef0$6400a8c0@quan
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?) by Mark David Dumlao
1 -----Original Message-----
2 From: Mark David Dumlao [mailto:madumlao@×××××.com]
3 Sent: February 21, 2009 1:12 PM
4 To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
5 Subject: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Installer and Handbook (Was: Re: Gentoo's
6 advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?)
7
8 To which the guru replied: "If you just want a CD installer, then you can
9 have this.", and he gave the student another Ubuntu CD.
10
11 At this point the student was enlightened.
12
13 I think you just outlined the exact kind of "help" that keeps most people
14 from switching to Gentoo. If that had been, for example, you and I having
15 that particular conversation, I'd of probably smacked you with the CD and
16 got my answers from somewhere else. Since most people, particularly most
17 people new to linux, assume CD == installer. Also, while I like the general
18 do it yourself attitude Gentoo takes right from instalation, there's nothing
19 accessible about it. Which means, even though I know all the information's
20 right there on the CD, I still won't actually be able to do it (can't see
21 the screen, after all). So yes, there are still areas wherein the use of an
22 installer, or even just the provision of better software on the CD, would
23 probably make it easier for people to get into it.

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