MS gone for good

second_exodous · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 1:39 am Post subject: MS gone for good

I finally dumped windows, and keeping it off after I've installed a few games that work for linux through portage. It took me a few weeks to get my box running but now that it has all the right nVidia drivers I don't see any reason to go back.

I still haven't destroyed all my MS cd's yet, I'm hanging on to them for a year. After I have linux for a year and no need to install MS then I'm going to take all my built up MS frustration out on them(sadly, this was taken out on my computers over the years.)

Portage is so easy. Installing was the only thing holding me back. I could only get one or two games running, and openoffice was never this easy to install even on windows. Heck, games were never this easy to install on windows.

Two things that made the move a lot easier, if not the only things making it possible, is these forums and the excellent docs on gentoo's webpage. I'd like to thank the people who wrote the docs and the people giving me help on these forums, and of course the people who write linux and the linux community in general.

Thanx,
Stan

P.S. If this forum is still active a year from now I'll post a update at the bottom, so if it's past Aug. 4, 2004 look for my second post in this forum.

scootersmk · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 2:47 am Post subject:

I totally agree! The forums and the other resources on the website are what takes gentoo above and beyond the rest.
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madchaz · Posted: Tue Aug 05, 2003 4:02 am Post subject:

a bit kudos to that

the forum and the very good documentation is what made me move to gentoo for my distro of choice on my servers. we also have projects comming up at work that might require linux, and you can be sure if I'm part of the decision making process, gentoo'll probably get a vote

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TenPin · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2002 Posts: 500 Location: Kansas City

Everything is pretty easy on Gentoo until things start going wrong.

Thats when it gets fun.

Linux is basically one immensely huge computer game. You just keep looking for more and more crazy/hard things to do with it and spend ages making it do them.

I have to say that these forums are THE BEST linux forums on the net.

Are there any others which are even remotely as useful ?

HeruNoleth · n00b Joined: 24 Mar 2003 Posts: 15 Location: Denmark

That is something that has always wondered me. Gentoo has the rep as one of the toughest distro to get going, so if you're total n00b to linux people recomend sopmething like mandrake or red hat. But infact Gentoo is easier to both install and maintain than both thanks to portage, and the huge amount of work being put into the ebuilds and the docs. I have tried both Mandrake and RH, but found Gentoo both better and easier!
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Anime_Fan · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 9:59 am Post subject:

d3c3it · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 12:04 pm Post subject:

to think 6months i wasted on redhat thinking it was easy and gentoo was rock hard to setup and use. if gentoo had a nice text installer, like on freebsd then gentoo would have everything for me *i dont like the flashy gui installers, i like to know whats going on

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norvillebarnes · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 3:04 pm Post subject:

I'm one of those total noobs that put off trying linux because I couldn't decide on a distro that I thought I could handle. After a while I bit the bullet and gave debian a shot, but days later I still couldn't get X configured. There was zero documentation and shall we say a less than helpful community. I looked around the gentoo site and forums and have been a satisfied user ever since. With all the help the install actually went more quickly than a binary distro...because it worked!

scriptkiddie · l33t Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 955

people think MS is the shit because people can call 1-800-whatever and get support.
They don't realize how much support linux gives users. If you have a problem, post it in one of the thousand linux forums and you'll get a solution

Peaceable Frood · Posted: Thu Aug 07, 2003 3:08 pm Post subject:

I plan on dumping Windows when there are more commercial games out for Linux.
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TenPin · Guru Joined: 26 Aug 2002 Posts: 500 Location: Kansas City

scriptkiddie · l33t Joined: 30 Mar 2003 Posts: 955

I heard that was a good game :wink:

Yeah, Frood, you are going to wait a long time before you get that wish.

zojas · Posted: Fri Aug 08, 2003 8:38 pm Post subject: my recomendation depends...

if somebody just wants to slap linux on a machine to see what it looks like, I give them a gentoo livecd or tell them to get knoppix. if they actually want to install linux, but just want to play with it, I tell them to try suse.

but if they are a geek, I tell them that installing gentoo will give them an education in linux, that they will be forced to learn a lot right away.

so my recomendation depends on how deep their commitment to linux seems to be
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jatf · n00b Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 72

I keep Winslows for one reason and one reason only:

:twisted:

Dark age of Camelot :twisted:

Once I burn out on that, I'll never look back.
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