From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E0k1g-0006Js-0w for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 04 Aug 2005 18:01:04 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j74HwPcY013368; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:58:25 GMT Received: from charlotte.ctrust.com (gatorvet.com [207.59.126.37]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j74Hqdwl001261 for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 17:52:39 GMT Received: from [192.168.100.92] (unknown [192.168.100.92]) by charlotte.ctrust.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5ECF75CE2A for ; Thu, 4 Aug 2005 13:56:10 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <42F25622.5070108@cfrscca.net> Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2005 13:53:38 -0400 From: Craig Zeigler User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo Badges References: <200508040843.16581.yeahsowhat@gmail.com> <200508040903.25072.yeahsowhat@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200508040903.25072.yeahsowhat@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 1396c065-ef0f-4127-b14c-a5a69da8ee05 X-Archives-Hash: ba76afa4c775bca00b6c08d6163ee25b Chris Cox wrote: >On Thursday 04 August 2005 08:50 am, Ryan Viljoen wrote: > > >>Yeah so you just skipped n00b status? >>You never asked a stupid question? >>No I thought not. >>Thats the spirit lets keep Gentoo to ourselves so it can grow... >> >>*sigh* >> >> > >I was of course just kidding. I do like Gentoo but hey, it isn't the right >choice for everyone. Some people I'm sure would prefer hand holding and >fancy GUI installers that other Distros have a seem to cator to the masses. > >DO you really think Gentoo should be the first Distro people new to Linux >should turn to? > > In one word... YES!. If you're going to learn your way around Linux well, why not start with something that doesn't teach you rely on GUIs and crap like that. When it all goes south, you're left iwth a command line. I guess I'm from the school that started wtih computer back where there was no GUI. The closest thing I had to a GUI was an ncurses like system, that really didn't work all that well. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list