On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 03:13:37PM -0700, Grant wrote: > Out of curiosity, who here would say they have experienced any type of > emotional discrimination because they use Gentoo? I find this in > correspondence with other Linux people sometimes. Is Gentoo far > enough "out there" to warrant this type of attitude? It seems like > these people are conservatives unwilling to roll with the changes to > me.
I don't think it's the distro, but a certain class of users with evangalism gone wrong :) I think anyone whose been to the site: http://funroll-loops.org/ should be able to understand why. Gentoo has attracted a fair number of people who think that they are linux gurus because they install gentoo and are out there screaming from the hills that gentoo is 31337 to the max, and the "real" users who are using gentoo for "real" reasons get lumped in with the zealots. This is of course true (in yesteryear) to os/2 users being associated with team os/2, and of course windows/linux/mac users being lumped in with their own respective os zealots these days. In the end linux is linux, some people like the DIY of linux from scratch or gentoo, others the commercial likes of redhat, others are rpm or deb fans, hell, some people even prefer mac or windows. Long as it works for you, who cares. -- Alan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://arcterex.net -------------------------------------------------------------------- "Backups are for people who don't pray." -- big Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
