On 2/8/08, Dan Farrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I sometimes forget that some people actually use XP as an alternate OS > (for me it's just there in case I forget how bored with games I am)
Well, other than games, Windows can at times prove a useful companion. What's good about it is that after a reboot it often functions exactly as it did after a previous reboot. On Gentoo, you make a system update, your apache glitches: no printing; you mess up with the libraries versions (updating some, others leaving as they are), vlc refuses to start: no DVD menus. I have also not yet managed to configure my HP PSC machine to scan on Gentoo. Once I was playing with the config files, emerging, re-merging to get it working, but I subsequently decided that it was easier to switch to Windows in the rare cases that I need scanning. [All these, of course, were personal examples.] The idea: Windows feels lame, offering however certain functionality out-of-the-box; Gentoo (in combination with Xfce) feels sweet, breaking however too often too easy without much contribution from my side. Liviu -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
