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ewl n00b
Joined: 04 Apr 2012 Posts: 17
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 2:24 pm Post subject: I think I'm finally "there" |
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I've tried gentoo several times, with mixed results. For a while, after ext4 came out as a standard, when I compiled the kernel, I would forget to configure ext4 or leave it as a module rather than compiling it into the kernel. The result, of course, was that the kernel wouldn't boot. Well, the past two or three times have been much more positive, and this last time, I think, was a keeper. Everything is working the way I want it to. I've switched from gnome to kde, I don't like the gnome shell, and it's running perfectly on gentoo.
I've even, just out of interest, decided to install gentoo with kde on my Acer One netbook. I'm into my third day of compiling
Anyway, thanks to all the gentoo developers. I love this distros! |
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a3li Retired Dev
Joined: 02 Sep 2008 Posts: 122 Location: 독일
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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Welcome, glad to have you on board. _________________ I am Confuism. Do not bother me. |
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NeddySeagoon Administrator
Joined: 05 Jul 2003 Posts: 54421 Location: 56N 3W
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 10:27 pm Post subject: |
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a3li,
Welcome.
I have Gentoo on my Acer One, but with Gnome. _________________ Regards,
NeddySeagoon
Computer users fall into two groups:-
those that do backups
those that have never had a hard drive fail. |
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a3li Retired Dev
Joined: 02 Sep 2008 Posts: 122 Location: 독일
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 7:24 am Post subject: |
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You should be welcoming ewl, Neddy. _________________ I am Confuism. Do not bother me. |
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ewl n00b
Joined: 04 Apr 2012 Posts: 17
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 2:29 pm Post subject: |
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NeddySeagoon wrote: | a3li,
Welcome.
I have Gentoo on my Acer One, but with Gnome. |
I just finished installing it on my Acer One. Everything's running great. I used to like Gnome, but with gnome-shell it seemed like everything slowed to a crawl. I'm used to kde now. I just have to decide whether I want the netbook interface, which is a little quirky, or the standard interface. |
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dol-sen Retired Dev
Joined: 30 Jun 2002 Posts: 2805 Location: Richmond, BC, Canada
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 2:41 pm Post subject: |
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ewl Welcome
I used the gnome shell for a few months, but didn't like it overall, so went back to using xfce4.
I just miss desktop sounds/notifications which xfce4 doesn't do natively. One of these days I'll have to follow the instructions to get it working. _________________ Brian
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gorkypl Guru
Joined: 04 Oct 2010 Posts: 444 Location: Kraków, PL
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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Nice to hear that But you will get on the true path to enlightenment when you switch from KDE to a tiling WM _________________ BTW, TWM FTW! |
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ewl n00b
Joined: 04 Apr 2012 Posts: 17
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Posted: Mon Jul 16, 2012 10:50 pm Post subject: |
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gorkypl wrote: | Nice to hear that But you will get on the true path to enlightenment when you switch from KDE to a tiling WM |
I've been there. I was really into ratpoison for a while. Then I got into dwm and the whole suckless ensemble, I was even using st for a terminal for a while. I go through phases. But I eventually get lazy and want a desktop environment to do the heavy work for me. But during my distro and wm hopping, I always had gentoo envy. Now I can start my climb to gentoo guru status. I've got a ways to go... |
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