is gentoo your main OS?

srunni · Guru Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 365

Gentoo/XP on my laptop and headless desktop. I only use Gentoo on the desktop, but on the laptop I occasionally boot into XP to game.
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bdg55 · n00b Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 5

3 laptops (dell D630s), one "server" all 2.6.27-r2 gentoo /rawr

nasaiya · Apprentice Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 157

I tried fedora, redhat, ubuntu, mandrake (a while ago) slackware (ugh) and a few others I can't think of right now but for more than a year its been Gentoo on my desktop, laptop, and piece of crap router/firewall box that performs beautifully despite its pathetic hardware and so far I've converted half my family to gentoo (although I do all the dirty work). I have to admit I have an XP box that gets turned on once every 6 months or so to do something dumb that i can't figure out how to do with linux and also of course if theres a free windows program that does what i need in that case

if its not free -- fsck it

Its amazing though.... no matter how much I UTTERLY DESPISE waiting for 100 packages to compile... gentoo and portage are just so great I can't possibly switch to something else. I was just talking to someone about this yesterday and then I happened upon this thread.
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keet · Guru Joined: 09 Sep 2008 Posts: 571

Gentoo is my main OS. I have three hard drives: The first one has my Gentoo and Vista on it. The second has all my personal data. The third one is for testing various things like FreeBSD and OSX86. I also keep an XP virtual machine that I run in VirtualBox, so I won't need to boot in Vista just to run a Windows program.

I also have a Redhat CD that's autographed by Linus Torvalds... but it's ancient; I think I last installed it on a 386 :-)

disi · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:36 am Post subject:

At home the desktop has Gentoo with 1 gaming partition with WindowsXP the other machine is Gentoo.

At work WindowsXP/Vista as Desktop

I tried Opensolaris, RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, Suse, gOS, BSDs etc. Most of them come with a bundle of packages or desktop environments, that I just personal do not want/need. Also I am too lazy to uninstall or disable all the stuff (bind, httpd on a desktop, samba, avahi, networkmanager, wlan, rdesktop kind of things) like in Windows.

To answer the question: whereever I install an OS, Gentoo is the first choice.
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dreadlorde · Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:06 pm Post subject:

Just Gentoo, but I may have to install XP if I want to play games that are better than 2D.
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Imek · Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:41 pm Post subject:

I've been using XP/Vista as my main on my desktop for a year or so now, mainly because of games. But now that I primarily play games that I know for sure work with Wine/Cedega, I'm considering dual booting and weaning myself gradually off Windows.

For now, though, I still have Gentoo on my laptop.
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Uncle Tux · Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:21 am Post subject:

No, Right now Mac OS X is my main OS on my Desktop ( Naturally, as it is a Mac Pro XD )
My other desktop is running Ubuntu
My laptop is currently running Gentoo, but I'm thinking about moving it to my desktop.

Ormaaj · Guru Joined: 28 Jan 2008 Posts: 319

I use gentoo as my main OS. I also run gentoo on my router/firewall, and built a gentoo computer for my brother. The only time I ever use any other distro is when fixing someones computer of windows, and I won't be around to help maintain the system (though, that didn't stop them from wrecking windows (moreso) in the first place.)

merlin2k · Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:29 pm Post subject:

Gentoo is my main OS, but i use sometimes WindowsXP in VirtualBox.

Tadeas · Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:09 am Post subject:

New to Gentoo, so I keep Debian installed on another partition as the "stable" OS I have here. However I haven't booted into it for quite some time...

gregool · Guru Joined: 26 Nov 2007 Posts: 336 Location: Lille

Gentoo is definitly my main OS.

i've got 2 desktop & a laptop running gentoo

why using something else? oh yeah right, that horrible tearing thing with FGLRX !

derkunstler · n00b Joined: 15 Feb 2009 Posts: 2

default 0
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splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz

title Gentoo Linux (64-bit)
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kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.27-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/sda2

sillen · n00b Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 4

Only have Gentoo on my computer so yes!
Love all the tweaks you can do and of course portage.

ps. at a LAN-party at the moment, and I'm asked to host all the games we play since they run more stable in wine than for the others here using vista/xp :lol:

Ormaaj · Guru Joined: 28 Jan 2008 Posts: 319

Vithon · n00b Joined: 04 Apr 2009 Posts: 7 Location: Cleveland, OH

It's my second OS.

Arch is my main.
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d2_racing · Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:49 am Post subject:

Nowadays, my main Os is Gentoo testing and beside it I have a FreeBSD 7.1 Release that need to be understand

Shodan · n00b Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 19 Location: Milan, Italy

It's my first OS on the desktop in my office, on my laptop, on my home computer (I also have XP, for the games) and I'm installing all new servers with Gentoo.

MaximeG · l33t Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 722 Location: Belgium

Hi,

Gentoo : Main
Vista : Games

Regards,
Maxime
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hampelratte · Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 155

Mr. M · Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:15 pm Post subject:

Yes, Gentoo is my main OS, I use it on

-Desktop at work
-Thinkpad
-Desktop at home
-A digital picture frame made from my old laptop with a 4GB compact flash drive for the root partition

Hopefully I will soon be installing gentoo on a "mini-cluster" consisting of 4 power edge servers with dual quad core Xeon E55XX each, that would be nice

jquinte · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:22 pm Post subject:

Yes!
At home and at work.
Of course I've got a Windows installed, but I never use it.

Cheers!

RedSquirrel · Guru Joined: 22 Apr 2008 Posts: 336

luqas · Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:11 pm Post subject:

I finally kicked the gaming bug and Gentoo is my main OS on my home desktop and my work laptop. Using virtualbox wih XP to do my AD tasks etc on the laptop and I love it.

vincent- · Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:13 pm Post subject:

Is my main OS in all my computers. My desktop, my laptop and my server.
I also have installed Gentoo in my iBook G4, but I don't use it, and I will install OSX Leopard to use iTunes and manage the iPhone I want to buy