Ryan Viljoen wrote: > Hahah I get batted by my friends regularly about using Gentoo and not > Suse and such. Apparently it requires to much constructive work to > keep it running or get it running for that matter but then they dont > understand anything about keeping your system uptodate with and emerge > --synce emerge --world do they?! I wont even get onto my Windows using > friends though they just shake their heads. I suppose each person is a > zealot for their favourite distro heck I am for Gentoo, I guess thats > just linux users for you :/ > > Cheers > Rav > > On 5/19/05, 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 >> >>-- >>gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list >> >> > >
I was the one of those that discriminated until I became a convert! Until recently I was a devoted SuSe user and dipped my toes now and again into other distros. (What are suse doing by the way, I mean a 'My Computer' icon......) Most of my friends and work colleagues think linux is a bit strange and far too difficult to work on everyday. I have to use Windows in work because of proprietory software (but I've sneaked a slackware box into one corner and use that now and again) and I use linux at home. Since I installed gentoo on my box at home I've not looked back. Its stable, fast and I get to load on it what I want without many errors. I cannot see myself going back to other distros. Gentoo is different. Thats its strength as far as I can see. If I wanted a 'my computer' icon on my desktop, indeed if I wanted to be forced to use a desktop I could just take the easy way out and stay with windows. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
