Michael Ulm wrote:
2) Go totally ~amd64. I am slightly worried about system
stability in this scenario. Every time the system hiccups
my wife tells me that this never happened in Windows...
I've been running ~amd64 for a year or more now, and I've had no problems
with upgrades breaking things. The only difficult upgrades seem to occur
when a new profile is distributed, and you don't have to do anything when
that happens - you opt into it, not out of it.
I suppose the occasional problem does crop up, which I usually find easy to
fix by putting the problem version of the package concerned into
package.mask, thus:
# cat /etc/portage/package.mask
=app-shells/bash-3.1
=mail-client/mozilla-thunderbird-1.5
As for Windows, I loathe it more daily. Its sheer arrogance is about its
worst feature - it insists it knows better than I do, no matter what little
thing I'm trying to do. I suppose I could fork out thousands for the course
that would tell me some basic things, but why should I? That's for large
corporations, not the middle-aged pensioner.
I could go on about comparisons between Word and the late, lamented Word
Perfect, but I'd better not.
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Rgds
Peter.
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