[gentoo-user] A confession

[Martin S]

I must confess. I've been unfaithful.
For a day.

After thoroughly trashing my system (~x86) for the second time by uncarefully upgrading my box I decided that I'd try something less brain taxing.
So I reinstalled with Kubuntu.

I'm reinstalling Gentoo now ...
I prefer battling with my own errors rather than someone elses.

I had to fiddle repeatedly with the installation routine just to get the thing installed. It constantly refused to install on my laptop
unless I used extended debugging (on the fifth attempt). Then I just wondered who decided I needed all that rubbish in my KDE installation.

All rubbish installed I tried opening a mpg from the net. "Totem can't handle mpg", trying Kaffeine I get "No codecs installed". Looking desperately for codecs in the install tools I came up empty. So I tried the installation docs for Kubuntu - which aren't updated for the latest release. So I went to the forums to look for the solution, but being acustomed to the Gentoo forums I found them a bit confusing.
OK, I thought - I'll leave that for later, so I tried playing a DVD "can't find the CD-player" at the location that /etc/fstab says it is mounted.

So I run an installer, it is setup with the configuration decided on by Kubuntu developers, and it doesn't work out of the box.
Why bother?

Back to Gentoo. And battling my own errors...
I think I'll run the stable branch this time though.

 
Regards,

Martin S