As long as you are the kind of user who can read a manual, you should be fine. The forum is here for any problem that you might have. Just pick the handbook for your architecture, and start reading it.

I'm going to agree with that. The point is just willing to read. I wasn't (and I'm not) a guru ...

I set the UID,GID, but nothing seemed to work. I formated the NTFS partition to ext3, and just using the ext3 partition through the ext ifs driver in windows. I tried every option people through at me in IRC, and this forum but the permission would not change.

Hello, I am using the NTFS-3g driver as I have a ntfs partition that needs mounting with write support. Every time I mount the partition every files permissions gets set to root:root. I have tried to chown -hR username:username /files at least 20 times. I have umounted the partition and used the ...

I have used LFS ever since I started using Linux, but it got to the point where I had no longer been able to keep it up2date. Tired many distros starting from slackware -> ubuntu, but never enjoyed the binarys. I have used gentoo for about 6 months, and now I think I will never turn back because it ...

Thank You! Sweet updating now.

Gaming Rig: Gentoo / Windows Xp { Windows XP is for Everquest 2 raiding here n there}
Gaming Rig #2: Ubuntu / Windows Xp {LAN with WIFE; or id be Gentoo}
Server: Gentoo
Nintendo Wii: P.O.C 0.4 --> Wishes for Gentoo on Wii.

I'm sorry but this behaviour of the developers seems to be the strongest argument for users to change their distro! Do you really want this?

Stop complaining; If you do not like it go use Ubuntu.