On 5/18/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of > emotional discrimination because they use Gentoo? I find this in > correspondence with other Linux people sometimes. Is Gentoo far > enough "out there" to warrant this type of attitude? It seems like > these people are conservatives unwilling to roll with the changes to > me. > > - Grant
Not emotional discrimination, but support discrimination yes. The president of Codeweavers once replied to me in an email that they don't support Gentoo because there is no distro to support. Their thought is that every machine is so completely different that they wouldn't know what to do. I sort of see their point, as did some thers here when I mentioned it, but in truth none of the problems I've ever run across were specifically Gentoo problems. Other than that people seem mostly impressed that a dummy like me CAN run Gentoo! As an low to medium level Linux guy (3-4 years of fooling around but now it's pretty much my full time platform) I think there's no comparison. I'd rather run Gentoo than FCx, Suse, Mandrake or Debian, all of which I've tried and had problems with. At least on Gentoo I can get any application I want without all the problems of RPM hell. - Mark -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
