Gentoo, we need to talk...

clarence · 2005-10-18 22:57:41

I'm sorry gentoo but I've found another distro. I cant deny that we've had a lot of good fun in the past and we seemed like a perfect match when we first met. But these last few months you've become too much maintenance for me to handle, we have grown apart too much to keep going on.

I need something simpler in my life that understands me in a way you never could, and it's called ArchLinux.

I'm sorry gentoo, it's not me, it's you.

phrakture · 2005-10-18 23:05:55

Haha, that was awesome.

You get my vote for best intro thread.

cactus · 2005-10-18 23:07:43

WillySilly · 2005-10-18 23:22:25

Bravo!
*wipes tear from under eye*

Dusty · 2005-10-18 23:37:43

reminds me of when I found out Python wasn't the little girl I once knew...

Theoden · 2005-10-18 23:46:17

Way to go ... kick that witch to the curb ... and welcome to Arch Linux.

--Theoden

clarence · 2005-10-18 23:59:41

Cheers, I think I'm going to like it here

While I'm at it with the Arch love thing, I'd like to send out a bit of love to the Devs and anyone else who has a finger on the Arch pulse for maintaining a distro that doesn't try to be all things to all people.

Right on!

clank · 2005-10-19 00:56:43

You'll probably start to notice just how many of us were involved with gentoo before we started fooling around with Arch

dust · 2005-10-19 03:15:35

We're all two timing biathes here...

dtw · 2005-10-19 07:25:57

There is a lot of bitterness towards women about at that the moment, which I find a little distressing...

lucke · 2005-10-19 08:41:18

Does it mean that gentoo penguin is actually female?

Welcome to the world of sharp arches, not penguins, clarence.

clarence · 2005-10-19 09:50:52

dibblethewrecker wrote:

There is a lot of bitterness towards women about at that the moment, which I find a little distressing...

:?

zba78 · 2005-10-19 11:29:48

I could almost hear the violins playing...

mforce · 2005-10-21 18:50:08

I have to agree that was nice . But I also feel the need to say that Arch will never replace Gentoo as my main distro . I'm willing to give it a try , put it on an older PC that has a Celeron @ 333 and could never compile Gentoo but never instead o Gentoo .
Why ? Well just because Gentoo is too damn good . It has every package I want , everything I install works and it's very stable. The only thing that Arch could offer would be less time to install a package but I don't really care about that . Besides I like the fact that I can use my custom flags and compiler options .
So I'm sorry while Arch might be a good one Gentoo is my distro and I'm not giving it up because there's nothing wrong with it ( at least from my point of view ) .
Good luck with Arch though . I'm waiting for 0.8 to give it a try . I feel it has a lot more potential than Gentoo because let's face it , other than geeks no one wants Gentoo . I see Arch as a good alternative to that Ubuntu , Mandriva , SUSE crap and let's not forget the worst of them all Fedora .
There are only 2 main distros I respect ( besides Gentoo which I love ) Debian and Slackware . But Debian is too slow and bugyy and Slackware is too basic . I know they're trying to keep things simple in Slack but they do it by letting it do nothing . No dependecies , no huge repository , nothing .
That's why I feel Arch is the best binary distro out there . I will give it a try soon and I hope it doesn't disapoint me . But Gentoo stays , sorry .

Gullible Jones · 2005-10-21 19:08:15

If Gentoo used binaries as well as source, I might still be using it.

(Then again, SystemV init scripts suck, and rc-update/modules-update should really be gotten rid of. They wouldn't need that crap if they used BSD-style init scripts.)

Gullible Jones · 2005-10-21 23:10:13

Does initng use /etc/rc.conf? If it doesn't, it's out.

rizzix · 2005-10-22 04:02:46

what about the really cool launchd ? (or is that apple-only)

ps: some promotion article: here

Stalwart · 2005-10-25 21:55:40

I also came from gentoo

High|ander · 2005-10-28 09:04:57

I have used gentoo for over 2.5 years and now i'm installing arch...

I like the init-scripts and the rc.conf file. So far so good

clarence · 2005-10-28 10:32:54

High|ander wrote:

I have used gentoo for over 2.5 years and now i'm installing arch...
I like the init-scripts and the rc.conf file. So far so good

I'm interested to hear how you like Arch. I was a gentoo user for about 1.5 years.

living with arch for a few weeks has been a breath of fresh air for me. Not that theres anything particularly wrong with gentoo, it's just that maintaining my arch install is just so much more painless in regards to both effort and time.

Damn, i think i found my distro....

dtw · 2005-10-28 10:41:33

My god! The gentoo users are flocking, I tell you, flocking!

I know gentoo has it's strengths but I sincerely wonder how much the gentoo kudos factor for regular desktop users is starting to wear thin and people are now looking for something a bit more easy to maintain...

clarence · 2005-10-28 14:10:53

Actually there is quite a bit wrong with gentoo now that I think about it.....

dtw · 2005-10-28 15:44:35

Actually there is quite a bit wrong with gentoo now that I think about it.....

MY GOD! I never thought I'd hear someone say that!

Cam · 2005-10-28 15:52:53

I used Gentoo before Arch. Not for anywhere near as long as you guys though, 6-8 months at best guess. Arch is my second real distro. I've installed Mandrake and Fedora but they were booted maybe twice and then removed for more Windows space

clarence · 2005-10-28 22:44:52

dibblethewrecker wrote:

Actually there is quite a bit wrong with gentoo now that I think about it.....
MY GOD! I never thought I'd hear someone say that!

Let me say that I have no problem with other people who like gentoo. It's a great distro to improve your linux knowledge on and very stable when it's up and running. Also a great community by the way.

But for the love of Pete, when it takes the better part of a weekend to update your distro i.e downloading, compiling, figuring out why compiles fail....it's just not cricket.

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