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On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 08:41:48AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> And a note to everybody else on the list: take it easy on the poor |
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> guy. People used to other distros are used to doing things like |
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> blowing away their installs every other year with a fresh install. |
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> Release-based distros get people used to this kind of nonsense, and |
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> the idea that FOSS comes on a shiny DVD. Portage's error messages |
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> don't always help in this regard. Of course any Gentoo user has to be |
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> willing to take the time to learn some of the nuts and bolts to keep |
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> things running, but when it is obvious somebody doesn't understand |
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> what they're doing we can educate rather than just point it out. |
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That's fine, we could all be a bit nicer. That said, if someone wants a |
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distro that is fast and easy to install (which is perfectly valid to |
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want; I use plenty of them on a daily basis), it is important to point |
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out that Gentoo is neither fast nor extremely easy to install. |
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Alec |
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