On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 4:04 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > Sebastian Beßler wrote: >> On 27.03.2012 20:30, Dale wrote: >>> May be trying Kubuntu here pretty soon. >> >> Be prepared for hard times using Kubuntu as it is now no major part of >> the Ubuntu family anymore. That means much less money and much less >> manpower. And if this issue with a init-thingy bothers you, Kubuntu will >> be living hell. As long as (K)Ubuntu works everything is fine, but in >> case of an error you just can't fix it. Everything is close tight to >> everything else. Change on thing and all fails. >> >> Greetings >> >> Sebastian >> > > > Well, based on my experience with Mandrake back in the day, the init > thingy is going to break for me here just like it did there. I'm > thinking about Kubuntu but I may actually decide on something else. > Thing is, it appears Gentoo is going to break my system so I may as well > find something that I can install lots quicker to fix what is broke. > Kubuntu is just one option. I installed it for my brother and it works > fine, SO FAR. > > I may be jumping out of the frying pan into a fire but I think I need to > at least try something else. This is very true if I continue to have > issues with the init thingy and not being able to su to root. I know > how to use a console but I only use it when needed. That's not very > often and I sort of like it that way. > > Barring that, I could just put everything on / and just hope nothing > goes bonkers and fills it up with useless errors or something in the > messages file. I have had this happen before and /var was full, I mean > FULL. I divide things so that I don't get conquered when it hits the fan. > > One thing about Linux, it has a LOT of options. > > Oh, there is talk of moving more things on -dev. If I didn't know > better, I'd think someone was trying to just change Gentoo until it > doesn't work any more. I dunno. Maybe I'm ready for a Apple now. o_O
The reason I like Gentoo (and why I've moved so much stuff to it) is because it lets me get in and have much finer _optional_ control over many things with minimal fuss. Ubuntu-derived distributions make it very, very difficult to change very, very many things, while retaining an update-stable setup. As long as you don't have to stray to far from their One True Way, Ubuntu (or most Linux distros, actually) should be fine. The annoying thing about Ubuntu is how their One True Way changes dramatically every six months to a year. -- :wq
