Fwd: Thanks from a Gentoo user 2010-06-08
The mail below reached the PR team today. I felt like sharing it with you.
Dear Gentoo Team,
As a Linux user for the past 5 years, I’ve been messing around with running Linux as a server and desktop at home, as I have always appreciated what is in my opinion a superior outlook on computing by the open source community. Over this time, I have bounced from distro to distro, trying to find a system that didn’t hold my hand, and let me do whatever I needed to do. Only now that I’ve acheived a working installation of Gentoo have I found what I’ve been searching for. Your distribution allowed me to get only what I need, without any waste. Compiling everything from source, while counterproductive to my air conditioner, is truly the way to go (again, just my opinion). I also realized your team probably doesn’t get any messages that aren’t asking for help on some obvious mistake, or to address a bug. I’d like to take this moment to express my sincere gratitude, not only for the Gentoo, but for all the people who make it possible. I wish you well, you have my sincere gratitude and appreciation.
Sincerely,
Capri Gomez
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Amen.
True true
+1 from a happy gentoo user
Gentoo does offer you a hand by good manuals and many unofficial documents, but if you don’t have to accept it.
Personally, I think the compiling is a necessairy evil to get the awesome USE-flags which are the primary reason I love Gentoo, closely followed by being a rolling release.
Ewoud,
What I meant by that was that so many systems impose by having packages work a certain way. With no support when it breaks. Being able to tailor software with the USE flags is a real eye opener for me. Though as you said, the documentation is excellent, and thats the kind of help I need.
+1.
+1 from another happy Gentoo user since 2003.
+1 from a Gentoo user since 2001 (and until 2019, I hope !)
Ahh, these kinds of e-mails/comments are the best. Congratulations on the e-mail, and of course congratulations on an excellent distribution.
Addicted user since 2004.0 and happy when KDE 4.4 comes stable
+1 since 2006
+1, addicted since 2004
great distro!
+1, addicted since 2004
great distro!
I did class at Inacap for Informatics Engineering…
Congratulations developers, team members and all Gentoo Collaborator.
I am Gentoo user since 2006, and really Gentoo is super cool distro.
What i love in gentoo is the ability to install any version of any package. This is the most important feature of the distro.
Thanks to everyone who works on gentoo.
Always nice to hear some appreciation for the outstanding Gentoo team and community! +1
Coolest distro ever. No question about it.
I feel just the way that user wrote in his email. +1
being surrounded with fellow-engineers having their own opinion with their own distro (this, that), as a newbie i followed and tried their distro. But in my own taste, something was wrong. I felt something was not right. Newbie was I, but yet I feel that “a huge fist has been pushed into my ears” (like MJ said). Giving me this and that, and hiding so much information from me, I question where is the linux that I’ve heard and read it’s supposed to be? So i search and I search, moving from distro to distro like walking in a dark tunnel. Until in the end, i saw the light. Gentoo….
I feel the same way
Totally agree with the sentiment. Gentoo user since 2003, have put it in server rooms instead of CentOS : )
What I love about Gentoo is how logical and simple it is in administration. Kudos to all Gentoo hackers out there : )
Agree with the mail (Gentoo user since 2002)
Gentoo was my 2nd distro (first lasted cca 2 weeks), and I DID try a whole bunch of others later on. But each time I didn’t feel comfortable. Getting back to Gentoo was like returning home, everything felt familiar, and it greeted me with lot’s of fixes and faster working (especially compiling got faster somewhere along the way),
Thanks to everyone working on gentoo, you made my life easier (and actually a big part to getting me studying CS).
Hope to be able to contribute soon!
true true!
gentoo is the only and best
been using linux since late 90’s. I tried Gentoo once in the past, but ran into some problem and just moved on. Tried all the major (and many minor) distributions and Slackware and Arch became my favs. Had a dream one night about a month ago of stuff compiling on my computer so the next day i installed Gentoo. I must say I am hooked. I think the first time I installed it I didnt give it a chance to really understand the USE flags and power of portage. I don’t see ever leaving now.