Re: [gentoo-user]

[Alan McKinnon]

On 04/03/2014 21:47, Guido Budack wrote:
> @Alan....
> thanks, thats a reply I like and appreciate...
> I know what you are talking about if you talk about 'these people' who haven't the patience and so far..
> Just hope it hasn't been a fully automated message :-)
> I just get off windows about 2 years ago after torturing myself with programming in 'this kind of environment'...
> My first step to linux (on recommendation) was Debian but to me it hasn't been really dazzling...
> On my other machine I use Ubunto_studio for streaming- and internetstuff by the way.
> Now I want to split from Debian and become a Gentoo geek...
> I heard already that the community should be quite helpful and slackware wasn't really my 'taste'... So let me thank you.
> Sure you or the community will hear from me again because actually and already 5 month I am in Asia, collecting 'bullits' in form of downloads, reading, studying and so far to get prepared for my return to Europe in a couple of weeks.
> Then I will start to change a lot of things and come back when I am installing Gentoo on one of my machines resp. Harddisks.
>
> See ya
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Sounds to me like you will do fine on Gentoo, it's a geek's paradise.
Once you get the hang of it and start to understand what portage tells
you with it's output, it's hard to get away from it.

The community here is very helpful and will walk you through any
difficulties you run into.

But one word of warning - you need to do your homework first and make an
attempt to help yourself. Those same helpful people can become
not-so-helpful if you don;t put in the work yourself :-)

But hey, that's true of geeks everywhere :-)

Oh, welcome to gentoo-land! I was forgetting my manners for a moment there!

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@×××××.com