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I've been meaning to write such a post for some time now. Thanks for |
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prompting me to add my 2 cents. |
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I've been using Gentoo for perhaps 15 years. There have been a few rough |
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patches along the way resolved by new reinstalls, but overall this has been |
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by far the best computing environment I've ever used. (And one of the best |
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online communities I've ever lurked in.) I remember feeling quite |
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apprehensive at my first install after giving the Handbook my first look, |
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but that install went well, and I've never looked back. I've been able to |
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transition from using Gentoo as a professional development system for large |
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scale parallel numerical stuff, to using it for some personal work in |
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medical informatics, and lately digital photography. In general, I've |
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found that Gentoo just works, given a little effort to understand how to |
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make it work via its truly wonderful array of well written documentation. |
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I really like the ease with which I've been able to venture into new |
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categories of software and computing. Every time I've needed something new, |
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it's been in portage and has been fairly easy to install, configure, and |
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use. |
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I recently had to do reinstalls on all my systems due to disk failures. |
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Took a few days, but I've been living in a sweet spot ever since, with |
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everything working perfectly on all systems. |
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Thanks to all who've made this possible! |
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On Sat, Apr 16, 2016 at 10:48 AM, Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hello, Gentoo. |
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> I'm just saying hello to confirm I'm still here. |
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> For many months now, Gentoo has simply worked for me, without problems. |
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> I sync my system several times a week, and emerge just works. |
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> The last bit of excitement I had was in early 2015 when I was trying to |
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> sort out the mess in my xfce4 system after gnome-3 had been made stable. |
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> In the end, I gave up and reinstalled Gentoo, which this time took me |
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> only a week. |
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> Admittedly, there's very little which is cutting edge on my system - the |
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> box is 6½ years old, it boots with lilo on an old fashioned BIOS, my |
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> filesystems are ext3 (or in one case, ext2) on spinning rust. The only |
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> remotely adventurous things I've got are RAID-1 (via the kernel) and |
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> lvm2. |
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> So a big thanks to all the developers who've brought about this happy |
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> state of affairs! |
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> -- |
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> Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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