Re: [tlug] [OT] plonk [Re: Classes]

[Scott Robbins <scottro@example.com>]

On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 07:28:00AM +0900, Chris Worthington wrote:
> Yeah, I took the bait of a troll. My bad. Fortunately, it's easy to ignore

> someone devoid of wit and intelligence. And if he said this stuff to my
> face, he'd see just how wrong he is about "being challenged about their
> physical abilities". 

Folks, one more time, I'm going to mention proper posting style. 

If people persist in top posting, we will probably start moderating.
(Now Stephen will probably top post to be funny, and no, we won't
moderate him.)


Trim previous posts and post in line.  Yes, it's more work with an
iPhone but can be done.  It's more work to brush your teeth in the
morning than to not do so.

I'll give the links one last time. 

http://linux.sgms-centre.com/misc/netiquette.php

http://howto-pages.org/posting_style

And a new one (thanks Jim!)  

  http://web.archive.org/web/20090627155454/www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting.html



> 
> Anyway, getting back to the subject:

Yes, to do that.   :)

> 
> I'm thinking of ditching Ubuntu to go with Linux Mint for the desktop. I
> don't care for Unity and I've heard Mint is the best alternative. Anybody
> wanna chime in?

Mint is good because most things Just Work(TM), codecs are installed and
so on. 

> 
> A lot of users at the last tech meeting kept touting Gentoo. I've only used
> Gentoo a couple times. The one reason why I like Debian based distros is I
> really like using apt-get for packages. Maybe someone can explain what they
> like about Gentoo?

I think that what people like about Gentoo is that you have almost
complete control of what you install.  It takes more work than
installing most other distributions, but you are able to avoid a great
deal of bloat.  (Although Debian, and probably Ubuntu and Mint have
their without-recommended options--I may have the exact wording wrong,
but it gives you the option to install only what's necessary, leaving
out the extra recommended stuff. 

I haven't followed Gentoo for several years, so don't know how it is
though.  However, I believe that you will still do much of the
installing from source--that is, building and compiling on your own
machine. 

My own rather humble opinion is that when Gentoo came out, its creator,
Daniel Robbins--no relation--I did have the pleasure of meeting him once
through former (current?) t-lugger Jack Morgan--just wrote such clear
documentation that it became popular as it allowed the less experienced
to do rather complex things.  It's certainly worth trying, but keep in
mind you should have a fairly powerful machine and good Internet
connection.     Also, if you don't really like working from the command
line, it might not be a good choice. 

So much depends upon what one wants from their system, and what they're
using it for.

-- 
Scott Robbins
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