[gentoo-user] Re: Considering launching into Gentoo

[walt]

Alan McKinnon wrote:

> ...As a Debian user, it is normally
> safe to assume you can, in fact, read :-)

Ah, maybe that explains why I despise their package manager.

When I was a Debian user I figured that the most basic of utilities
should be easy to use -- and I'm only half joking.

Just for fun I tried Ubuntu recently since it's been so popular the
last few years.  They built their system on top of a Debian base,
including my nemesis, the Debian package management system :o(

The Synaptics GUI front end for their package manager is a great deal
easier than the original back end, true, but the basic bad design of
the back end still glares through the eye candy.  (Just my opinion.)

I like gentoo's portage system so-o-o-o much better!