Gentoo has made me stupid - sorta

[Raoul_Duke]

So, i've been running a pure gentoo system for quite a while now (I was previously dual-booting) and everything is running like a puppy

I've got a damn-fine desktop, numerous excellent apps, rock solid stability, near-perfect package management.........but here's the problem.

Now, bear with me becuase i'm not being 100% serious here.......other distros seem alien to me

People ask me questions about how to install this or fix that and i just freeze!! My linux knowledge is soooo gentoo-related that fairly simple problems on other people's boxes seem quite puzzling to me.

I don't mind really, because i know my box inside out

Anyone else suffer from this
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[samokk]

everyone suffers from this problem :p

once you/ve got so many problems (e.g. you're using gentoo ), you imagine so complex scenarios why this or this wouldnt work on some other machine..

then you feel stupid not to konw how to fix the small little problem on MDK 9.x :p

sam

[Mystilleef]

Hello Gents,

Apart from the package management system and the scripts setup, Gentoo is no different from any other linux machine. Agreed, sometimes I get confused when using a distro I'm not familiar with, but it only takes a matter of minutes to get my orientation.

Most of the troubles users on other linux distros face are a result of the flaws eminent in some terrible package managers. Others are installation problems. And yet others package specific. I would not argue that gentoo has made me dumber. Afterall in a utopian computing environment, installing packages is supposed to be a flawless, an easy and a convenient process. I'd agree Gentoo has made my linux voyage a little more purposeful, but there is still a long way to go, especially in the Linux sphere.
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[paranode]

[SIR]

Well, as an utter Linux n00b, installing Gentoo made me smarter about Linux in general. Actually, I used to use HP-UX a little at work a couple of years ago, but that was as an end user of a program or two without much privileges, with a little vi use.

I also tried installing Red Hat, and while it was definitely faster than setting up Gentoo, I really had no idea what was going on or how I could tweak things and didn't learn a thing. It was kind of like installing Windows or something (shudder).

All it takes is reading the docs looking in the forums, and someone like me can learn quite a bit during the process of setting up Gentoo.

My $0.02.

[Raoul_Duke]

Well i'm glad i'm not the only one

Yeah, it's like init scripts and packages seem so different......red hat and mandrake are like a different OS
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[Raoul_Duke]

lol, i'm not too bothered......just my 'linux-geek' status is in jepardy
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[patsonrt1]

Quite a coincidence. I was thinking the exact same thing today at work. My Bro gave me a copy of his Apache conf to refrence, as I am trying to setup web folders on my server, and he tells me where mine is located in /etc (I had that part figured out ) Anyways, a Apache emerge sets up config files in a different location than the "normal" RPM's and that, for some reason, got me thinking about installing a RPM or a .tar file. What exactly were those commands to install from a .tar file...... I think Gentoo has a negative affect on my ability to sound intelligent to non-gentoo Linux users sometimes
On the other hand, I have learned more about Linux in the 6 months I have used Gentoo then the few years that I was using other distros off and on. Me thinks that is kinda weird.
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