Re: Hard to find netiquette, enculturation bug. (Was: Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME: Cant logout and Lock Screen is showing different background from GNOME screensaver)

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-12-23, Mark David Dumlao <madumlao@×××××.com> wrote:

> Half the fun of Gentoo is knowing that you're kinda on your
> own.

I find the opposite to be true: I'm much _less_ on my own with
Gentoo that I was with any other distro.  There's a Gentoo
guide or howto for almost everything I've tried to do (some of
of it pretty obscure).  I've found the documentation for Gentoo
is far more complete, accurate, and up-to-date than for
RedHat/Mandrake, Suse, Debian, or Ubuntu.

I've been running Gentoo for years, and I'm still amazed and
how complete and up-to-date the guides are.  Just yesterday I
used the Bluetooth guide to get my new mobile phone paired with
my IBM Thinkpad.  Every step was completely and accurately
explained and had an example listing.

When I used to google for help on problems with Mandrake or
Ubuntu, all I would find were postings on those ghastly "web
forums" that were often several years old and did nothing but
confirm that other people couldn't get X to work either.  Those
postings were usually answered by people who didn't understand
the problem and proffered incorrect or irrelevant suggestions.
Rarely were real solutions found, and if they were they were
out of date and no longer applicable.

For the rare occasion when there's not a detailed guide or
howto, I've always gotten very prompt and accurate help from
the mailing list.

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