The facts are: - Internet is powerful. - Gentoo and internet talk like friends. - If you can read and surf the web, you can use almost any program with a fair documentation and bit of geekness. - Gentoo is widely documented. - There's always us to point newbies to RTFM and/or search at Google :) at the second mail they'll think better and search twice before asking another question and try everything before asking us again.
In no time, you'll get a power user answering questions instead of asking. That's evolution baby! On 8/4/05, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2005 at 10:50:17AM -0400, Michael Crute wrote: > > At the expense of sounding like an "Elitist Chowderhead" I kind of agree > > with Chris. I'm fairly new to Gentoo (but not to Linux). I came from Fedora > > and must say that personally Gentoo makes way more sense and pisses me off > > far less than any RedHat distro. But that said I would never recommend > > Gentoo to a noob unless they where just as geeky as I. I would rather see > > normal people use distros like Mandriva and Linspire then graduate to Gentoo > > when and if they are ready than to have them start at Gentoo then get pissed > > off at their own inability to make the thing work and go back to Windoze. > > Just my $0.02, take it for what it's worth. > > > > -Mike > > > > I disagree. I think we should pit people first against OpenBSD, then > FreeBSD, then Gentoo Linux, then Debian, then SuSE, then > Fedora/Mandrake... which ever one they manage to install on the first > try (of course, following a manual) should be they one they start > from..... > > Of course, a sadistic bastard like myself (and since I am speaking > from experience, probably also masochistic) should have no say in this > matters. q= > > I kid of course. I have had at least UserLand experience with RedHat > and Solaris before I installed a *nix system on my own computer. With > a manual in hand, even the BSDs were quite easy to set up. > Unfortunately a BIOS bug in my IBM Thinkpad means that openbsd killed > it for good (or at least until a complete system wipe). > > But seriously, I don't see really problems with n00bs using Gentoo as > a starter distro, so long as the said n00bs knows the power of > google... > > Best, > > W > -- > Once you've seen one shopping center you've seen a mall. > Sortir en Pantoufles: up 3 days, 23:45 > -- > [email protected] mailing list > > -- Daniel da Veiga Computer Operator - RS - Brazil -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCM/IT/P/O d-? s:- a? C++$ UBLA++ P+ L++ E--- W+++$ N o+ K- w O M- V- PS PE Y PGP- t+ 5 X+++ R+* tv b+ DI+++ D+ G+ e h+ r+ y++ ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ -- [email protected] mailing list
