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>If they were using Arch or Gentoo at home, If they are using gentoo, you should be finding someone else. Gentoo users are typically the most dangerous combin
by asdasf 13y ago
>If they were using Arch or Gentoo at home,
If they are using gentoo, you should be finding someone else. Gentoo users are typically the most dangerous combination of profoundly ignorant, yet absurdly overconfident in their abilities. Seeing a bunch of autotools and gcc output scroll by does not teach you anything. But the mistaken reputation as an "advanced" distro makes people think that by using gentoo, they are therefore "advanced".
- Phlarp 13y agoBecause large groups of people can always be prejudged by which technologies they deploy!
- angersock 13y agoAre Gentoo users really that large a group of people? In numbers, I mean, not form factor.
- asdasf 13y agoNo, specifically gentoo users can. The distro literally serves no real purpose, nobody with any unix experience would consider using it. It is quite literally the distro for people who don't know what they are doing, but want to feel "advanced" by watching stuff they don't understand scroll by.
- Phlarp 13y agoYour comments tell me more about you than they do Gentoo users.
- BuildTheRobots 13y agoThere's something to be said for the installer being a random liveCD and documentation for manually installing & configuring a system. If you go though the handbook properly (and potentially enough times until you don't need it to install), then the amount of inherent linux usage and admin knowledge you can pick up is just phenomenal -for example I love the xkcd[1] even if it stopped applying when I started using gentoo. I would expect a gentoo user to be comfortable on the command line, which doesn't hold true for a lot of other desktop users. That said, isn't it immense desktop linux has gotten to the point where the barriers to entry are grandma level low :) It's also probably fair to say that every userbase has it's vocal idiots... [1] http://www.xkcd.com/1168/ http://www.xkcd.com/1168/
- asdasf 13y agoI have never seen a gentoo users with any more knowledge or experience than ubuntu, mint, mandrake, etc users. They are in fact almost exclusively people who used a "noob" distro, then switched to gentoo to feel "advanced" even though nobody with any unix knowledge would waste their time with gentoo.
- BuildTheRobots 13y agoYou're meeting the wrong linux users then...
- blueskin_ 13y agoObligatory link to http://funroll-loops.info/ http://funroll-loops.info/
- collyw 13y agoOK, it has been a few years since I tried, but if you could get Gentoo installed you must have known a fair amount.