From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro
Date: Fri, 11 Nov 2011 23:47:31 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111111234731.452e9d84@rohan.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+czFiAmzTm8S=MfjU0CvUHjbOTHGv1n=3bm31sM7Bghf4kPYQ@mail.gmail.com>
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:14:57 -0500
Michael Mol <mikemol@gmail.com> wrote:
> Never used OpenSuse, but I've spent about ten years bouncing between
> Ubuntu and Debian. (I started using Ubuntu around either 5.04 or 6.06.
> Not sure.)
>
> While Ubuntu is usually among the first of the binary distros to
> support new things, it's been suffering more and more (and more!)
> decay when you wander off the beaten path. Over the last couple years,
> it's tended toward beating its own path, so knowledge and skills are
> becoming less portable if you're bouncing between Ubuntu and other
> distros, or even between Ubuntu and Debian.
>
> It's nice if you want something up and running fast, it's friendly to
> newbies, and it's friendly to some kinds of administrators, but it's
> *not* friendly to power users.
>
If my ftp server stats are anything to go by, Linux Mint is the one
power users are targeting right now. Number of downloads is a
significant % of number of Ubuntu downloads.
Myself, I've given Ubuntu a decent 10 week trial. And I'm sick of it
already. I'm not even using 11.04, this is 10.10 with classic gnome 2
and I miss Gentoo so much it hurts :-)
As soon as my new laptop arrives, Gentoo is going right on it. I'm
going to miss this Samsung Series 9 Airbook-knockoff hardware but the
software on it will get deep sixed with nary a backward glance...
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
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Thread overview: 72+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-10 18:25 [gentoo-user] [OT] Binary install distro Dale
2011-11-10 18:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-10 19:03 ` Dale
2011-11-11 7:37 ` J. Roeleveld
2011-11-11 19:20 ` Mick
2011-11-11 20:14 ` Michael Mol
2011-11-11 20:25 ` Dale
2011-11-11 21:09 ` Florian Philipp
2011-11-11 23:28 ` Dale
2011-11-11 23:51 ` Florian Philipp
2011-11-12 0:16 ` Dale
2011-11-15 19:15 ` [gentoo-user] " Steven J Long
2011-11-15 20:19 ` Dale
2011-11-15 22:19 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-16 1:08 ` Dale
2011-11-16 0:54 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-16 1:04 ` Dale
2011-11-16 1:08 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-16 1:23 ` Dale
2011-11-16 3:45 ` Érico Porto
2011-11-16 5:03 ` Dale
2011-11-16 10:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-16 10:19 ` Dale
2011-11-16 10:57 ` Lars Madson
2011-11-11 21:47 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2011-11-12 0:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2011-11-12 9:36 ` Mick
2011-11-12 20:44 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-12 20:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-10 19:40 ` Florian Philipp
2011-11-10 20:04 ` Lorenzo Bandieri
2011-11-10 20:17 ` Michael Schreckenbauer
2011-11-11 14:54 ` Dale
2011-11-11 15:17 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-11 15:41 ` Dale
2011-11-11 15:53 ` Mark Knecht
2011-11-11 16:49 ` Lorenzo Bandieri
2011-11-11 17:00 ` Dale
2011-11-11 19:18 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-11 20:10 ` Lorenzo Bandieri
2011-11-11 21:38 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-12 0:30 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-12 2:54 ` Dale
2011-11-11 20:19 ` Dale
2011-11-11 21:27 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-11-11 23:36 ` Dale
2011-11-12 0:04 ` Florian Philipp
2011-11-13 3:28 ` Dale
2011-11-12 0:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-12 0:45 ` Florian Philipp
2011-11-12 1:02 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-12 8:11 ` Florian Philipp
2011-11-12 2:57 ` Dale
2011-11-11 22:02 ` [gentoo-user] " Grant Edwards
2011-11-11 23:24 ` Mick
2011-11-11 23:40 ` Dale
2011-11-12 0:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-12 3:05 ` Dale
2011-11-12 3:24 ` James Wall
2011-11-12 10:35 ` Neil Bothwick
2011-11-10 22:13 ` [gentoo-user] " Paul Hartman
2011-11-10 22:15 ` Paul Hartman
2011-11-10 22:29 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-11-11 9:54 ` James Wall
2011-11-11 11:41 ` [gentoo-user] " masterprometheus
2011-11-13 0:58 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2011-11-13 2:22 ` Érico Porto
2011-11-13 2:30 ` Dale
2011-11-13 10:45 ` Lorenzo Bandieri
2011-11-13 16:50 ` Dale
2011-11-13 18:26 ` Mick
2011-11-13 19:28 ` Florian Philipp
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