Gentoo desktop?

[Ian Petersen]

On Jan 10, 2008 3:36 PM, Tyler Aviss <tjaviss-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Any Gentoo desktop users out there?

I use Gentoo for my desktop and my laptop.  I'm generally happy with
it.  It's frustrating that the package maintainers occasionally
release broken packages.  It's also frustrating that the package
maintainers seem to only ever do incremental upgrades in really small
increments, so upgrading in a large increment tends not to work.  On
the other hand, I really like the package choices, the up-to-dateness
of the packages, and the ease with which I can create my own packages
that seamlessly integrate with the system.

The community around Gentoo is very good, but you have to avoid the
people that spend time arguing about compiler flags.  Lots of people
seem not to understand that Bash spends most of its time blocked on
I/O, for example, and want you to compile with -O9999 (never mind that
numbers greater than 3 are equal to 3) or -fomit-instructions.

I use Gentoo primarily for the package manager (USE flags rock) and
the fact that my first install taught me more about how the system
works than I ever learned while using Mandrake, SuSE, and RedHat
combined.  I've been using Gentoo since the fall of 2002 and I don't
see myself changing any time soon.  One downside is that I'm hopeless
on other distributions because I've gotten used to the Gentoo way of
doing things.  This might be more of a comment on me than on Gentoo.

Ian

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