[nylug-talk] I'm a Gentoo convert.

[Ruben Safir]

On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:06:32PM -0600, Michael Bacarella wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 02:59:54PM -0800, Peter C. Norton wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:32:55AM -0500, Ruben Safir wrote:
> ...
> > Beyond that, why do you (and others) want people to have to buckle
> > under and subscribe to a sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-specialization of an
> > overall beneficial ideology or else you won't respect their choices?
> 
> The Lazy Narcissist's Guide on How To Be More Awesome
> 
> 	1. Draw small circle.
> 
> 	2. Stand inside circle.
> 
> 	3. Relentlessly find fault in everyone outside of circle.
> 
> 
> Oh, were you asking a rhetorical question?
> 


We can take away from this that your not a fan of Gentoo or Portage because you
feel its users suffer from a narrowness of view in which those who use other
methods or distros otherwise, in your opinion, don't suffer.

Well, all i can respond to that is

A) I never used Gentoo but I'm thinking about trying it.  Otherwise I've mostly
used SuSE over the years, and a lot of debian and slackware sprinkled in.  I
personally haven't found the followers of any particular distro much different
with regard to their brand loyalty than anyone else.

B) I find it useless to attack people based on their loyalty to any particular
distribution.  I do believe, however, that it is essential that people 
understand with competency how things work.

Ruben

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