Re: default stage3 (was : [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo still on the right path?)

[Holly Bostick <motub@planet.nl>]

Daniel da Veiga schreef:
> Gentoo is not easy, its not simple and its not designed or the best 
> distro to start in the Linux world.
> 

Hogwash. What's so hard about it, as opposed to any other Linux distro,
once you get past the install issue?

Is learning Portage somehow intrinsically harder than figuring out how
to manage YAST and YOU, if you don't know anything at all about package
management (which, after all, Windows doesn't have at all)? Does having
to figure out how to acquire a media player that will play your MP3s and
DVDs by default, because you're using a distro that does not legally
prefer this functionality to be distributed, somehow make that distro
easier to use, or simpler in some way? The ATI drivers are a b**ch to
install no matter what distro you use, if you need them.

Just what precisely is so not-simple about Gentoo as opposed to any
other distro (barring perhaps Linspire)?

Holly
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