[CLUE-Tech] distro question

[Nate Duehr]

On Jun 10, 2004, at 8:30 PM, Collins Richey wrote:
> gnome and kde can be a bitch to install, also, even for gentoo. Since I
> don't need them on a daily basis, I just wait for the pilgrims to catch
> the arrow, then install them a few weeks later.

Just playing devil's advocate here... the problem I always had with 
this approach was I found it took far more time to track the various 
mailing lists and bugzilla and what-have-you to find out whether or not 
people got stuck with the arrows than I could afford and still get 
stuff done.

I'd rather spend the extra time chatting with you guys here in 
CLUE-Tech!  (GRIN)

But seriously, anyone who knows me knows that one of the phrases I 
learned from a friend a long time ago is always what I fall back on... 
Linux is Linux.  There's a lot of debates about distros and what-not, 
and pretty much it all boils down to -- use whatever you want, they're 
all Linux.

That is, of course, both the best and the most frustrating thing about 
Linux -- it's all things to all people because anyone can change it.  
The hard part is that it's always changing and sometimes hard to keep 
up with!  Heh.

Adam's problems with mplayer and having to track the progress of the 
bug for weeks and weeks would drive me batty.  Well more precisely I'd 
just go watch the silly DVD on the Mac running OS X and be done with 
it.  (GRIN)  (With a terminal window up ssh'ed into the Linux box 
working on other more useful "stuff" or answering e-mail or 
whatever...)

Nate Duehr, nate at natetech.com