120910 Paul Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Chris Stankevitz >> Gentoo is the best distribution I have used ... >> I love watching & questioning what is going to be installed. >> Supposedly Gentoo lacks being able to "just work" without thinking, >> but in my experience this simply isn't the case anywhere. >> With Ubuntu I had trouble with sound and ethernet cards >> that I could never figure out >> and the kind of answers I get on their forums drive me insane.
When I wanted to install Linux on my new netbook 2008, I quickly found that the simplest way to get everything to work was to install Gentoo, using my notes from previous desktop installs. In Gentoo, problems are almost always just 1 layer deep, tho' the Gentoo Forum also tends to be much more noise than signal. > That's how I felt, too, in 2003 or 2004 when I first installed Gentoo > and I've been using it ever since and still feel the same way. > I'm okay with more responsibility in exchange for more control. > Sometimes it makes you think about what you're doing more > than some other distros, but thinking is fun. Exactly my own experience, also since 2003, when Mandrake was slow to bring out its new version, other distros didn't install properly & I finally tried Gentoo: suddenly I found myself looking at a working system on my screen ! -- that machine still runs well enough as a stand-by without any re-installation & I can update 'world' after > 1 year . My picture is that using M$ is like staying in a mediocre over-priced hotel, where there are many locked doors marked 'Private: staff only!', it's not safe to eat in the restaurant & Security gets angry sometimes. Binary Linux distros are like living in a fairly good apartment building, but you're still dependent on company staff + policies. Gentoo is like owning your own house. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
