On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Chris Stankevitz <chrisstankev...@gmail.com> wrote: > Gentoo is the best distribution I have used (I haven't used too many: > ubuntu, fedora, gentoo). I love the USE flags. I love watching (and > questioning) what is going to be installed. I love emerge. > Supposedly gentoo lacks being able to have a system "just work" > without thinking about anything. But in my experience on linux, this > simply isn't the case anywhere. With ubuntu, for example, 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 ("my > uncle once said that his cousin typed this magical command and it > worked fine for a little while so maybe try that"). > > And what's the deal with these "major release versions" of the other > distros? Why do that? > > Thank you to all the people who contribute to it... and to those who > are giving great advice/solutions on this list! > > Chris >
Like Paul and many others I've never looked back. I'm no power user, and contrary to a lot of the press out there I don't think you need to be to use this distro. Just be careful and red a bit. I've been helping a long time trading partner friend of mine with his move to Gentoo over the last year. He's hardly using native Windows anymore. He just runs a bunch of VMs like I do. Don't go doing anything crazy with your use flags. Yeah, they are cool, but my experience, especially in the beginning, is that less is more. I only have about 10 in make.conf on any of the 10 or so machines we have in our family now. I add a few in package.use when I'm forced to. Other than that KISS. Good luck & welcome to the family. Cheers, Mark