Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

["Jesús Guerrero" <i92guboj@terra.es>]

El Jue, 5 de Febrero de 2009, 12:36, Nikos Chantziaras escribió:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
>
>> On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:.
>>
>>>> I can't think of a single reason why the installer should operate
>>>> in a different manner to the way the thing will be used.
>>> Because installation is boring.  The easier it is, the better.
>>>
>>
>> wrong. The installation needs a certain difficulty to keep idiots away.
>> Nobody
>> needs idiots (except maybe ubuntu).
>
> That is insulting.  My mother uses Ubuntu.  Thanks for calling her an
> idiot.  Obviously if someone wants to use his computer in order to get
> something done without doing a Ph.D on Portage and /etc first, then that
> person is an idiot.
>
> Great thinking.  Fortunately, there are people (like the Ubuntu folks)
> who don't think that way and are trying to make Linux more popular to
> people who need a computer to do tasks that are not related to the
> computer itself.

I don't agree with the way to see it of Nikos. However, even if
I agree with you in that having Ubuntu (which is another choice)
is a good thing, I don't agree that Gentoo should be
yet-another-ubuntu.

Gentoo is Gentoo, and Ubuntu is Ubuntu. If your mother uses Ubuntu,
that's fine. But we don't need to lower the acceptance level of
Gentoo so your mother can use it.

I think that it's fair to ask a minimal degree of will to read
and learn for a distro like Gentoo. The rest of Gentoo users do
it, no one died that I know of because of it.

-- 
Jesús Guerrero