At the expense of sounding like an "Elitist Chowderhead" I kind of agree 
with Chris. I'm fairly new to Gentoo (but not to Linux). I came from Fedora 
and must say that personally Gentoo makes way more sense and pisses me off 
far less than any RedHat distro. But that said I would never recommend 
Gentoo to a noob unless they where just as geeky as I. I would rather see 
normal people use distros like Mandriva and Linspire then graduate to Gentoo 
when and if they are ready than to have them start at Gentoo then get pissed 
off at their own inability to make the thing work and go back to Windoze. 
Just my $0.02, take it for what it's worth.

-Mike

On 8/4/05, Daniel da Veiga <danieldaveiga@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Agreed in all terms!!!
> 
> On 8/4/05, Michael Sullivan <michael@espersunited.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2005-08-04 at 09:03 -0500, 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?
> > > --
> > > Chris
> > > Linux 2.6.12-gentoo-r6 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP
> > > 09:00:21 up 1 day, 14:07, 6 users, load average: 0.33, 0.23, 0.19
> >
> > My first Linux was Red Hat 8.0. I then went to RH 9.0 and Fedora Core
> > 1. I for one would not recommend Gentoo to a person who has never used
> > Linux before. I certainly wouldn't have understood it. Think of it as
> > a test of the strong: Newbies might choose Gentoo and run into all
> > kinds of problems and ask stupid questions. Most will get frustrated
> > and either leave Linux altogether or seek out a more user-friendly
> > distrobution. The ones who stick around are the ones worth adding to
> > the community. When I first came to Gentoo I asked a lot of stupid
> > questions (still do) and I get frustrated with it sometimes but I know
> > that this is what I want and so I'll stick with it. The newbies like
> > that will stick around and they will ask stupid questions and learn from
> > those stupid questions and you will not be able to get rid of them no
> > matter how hard you try. Linux is not for the faint of heart (that's
> > what MSWindows is for.) If someone wants to learn Linux (Gentoo) and
> > stick to it then they are worthy of our time...
> >
> > --
> > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
> >
> >
> 
> 
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