On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 08:41:48AM -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > And a note to everybody else on the list: take it easy on the poor > guy. People used to other distros are used to doing things like > blowing away their installs every other year with a fresh install. > Release-based distros get people used to this kind of nonsense, and > the idea that FOSS comes on a shiny DVD. Portage's error messages > don't always help in this regard. Of course any Gentoo user has to be > willing to take the time to learn some of the nuts and bolts to keep > things running, but when it is obvious somebody doesn't understand > what they're doing we can educate rather than just point it out.
That's fine, we could all be a bit nicer. That said, if someone wants a distro that is fast and easy to install (which is perfectly valid to want; I use plenty of them on a daily basis), it is important to point out that Gentoo is neither fast nor extremely easy to install. Alec
