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120910 Paul Hartman wrote: |
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> On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Chris Stankevitz |
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>> Gentoo is the best distribution I have used ... |
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>> I love watching & questioning what is going to be installed. |
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>> Supposedly Gentoo lacks being able to "just work" without thinking, |
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>> but in my experience this simply isn't the case anywhere. |
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>> With Ubuntu I had trouble with sound and ethernet cards |
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>> that I could never figure out |
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>> and the kind of answers I get on their forums drive me insane. |
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When I wanted to install Linux on my new netbook 2008, |
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I quickly found that the simplest way to get everything to work |
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was to install Gentoo, using my notes from previous desktop installs. |
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In Gentoo, problems are almost always just 1 layer deep, |
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tho' the Gentoo Forum also tends to be much more noise than signal. |
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> That's how I felt, too, in 2003 or 2004 when I first installed Gentoo |
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> and I've been using it ever since and still feel the same way. |
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> I'm okay with more responsibility in exchange for more control. |
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> Sometimes it makes you think about what you're doing more |
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> than some other distros, but thinking is fun. |
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Exactly my own experience, also since 2003, |
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when Mandrake was slow to bring out its new version, |
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other distros didn't install properly & I finally tried Gentoo: |
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suddenly I found myself looking at a working system on my screen ! |
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-- that machine still runs well enough as a stand-by |
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without any re-installation & I can update 'world' after > 1 year . |
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My picture is that using M$ is like staying in a mediocre over-priced hotel, |
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where there are many locked doors marked 'Private: staff only!', |
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it's not safe to eat in the restaurant & Security gets angry sometimes. |
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Binary Linux distros are like living in a fairly good apartment building, |
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but you're still dependent on company staff + policies. |
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Gentoo is like owning your own house. |
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