[gentoo-dev] Re: The Age of the Universe

["Duncan" <1i5t5.duncan@cox.net>]

Simon Stelling <blubb@gentoo.org> posted 44F991D7.9060905@gentoo.org,
excerpted below, on  Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:14:47 +0200:

> Edgar Hucek wrote:
>> I know my tools but not necessarly the normal user who wanna use gentoo
>> and is ending frustrated.
> 
> If the users are too lazy to read the documentation, why should we care
> about them?

Exactly.

To such a "normal user", unwilling to invest the very real time and energy
into learning about Gentoo and how to customize it to his wishes, most if
not all Gentoo devs will be happy to recommend Ubuntu or whatever.  Ubuntu
is by all reports a very respectable distribution, arguably one of the
most user friendly yet powerful out there. (Linspire/Freespire's probably
the most user friendly, disregarding power.)

Let Gentoo do what Gentoo does best, cater to those that /like/ that
customizability, even, perhaps /because/ of, the challenge of mastering
the machine and bending it to our will.  There are plenty of other
distributions out there for those that are more interested in just having
it work, with as little knowledge and effort invested on their part as
possible.

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