Just wanted to say after over 7 years w/Gentoo still happy

bammbamm808 · Guru Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Hawaii

Just switched out my mainboard/CPU/RAM/video and did the baselayout2/RC update relatively painlessly, thanks to the excellent documentation and the users of the forum here. Gentoo is great. Thanks everyone who makes it so.
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Jaglover · Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 9:01 pm Post subject:

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John R. Graham · Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 10:02 pm Post subject:

+2. 6 years and counting.

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krinn · Watchman Joined: 02 May 2003 Posts: 7470

after all those years,

dylix · Posted: Wed May 11, 2011 10:39 pm Post subject:

7 years u say?
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bammbamm808 · Guru Joined: 08 Dec 2002 Posts: 548 Location: Hawaii

yoshi314 · l33t Joined: 30 Dec 2004 Posts: 850 Location: PL

it would be 7 years for me as well. started with 2004.3 with minor side jumps to try out other distros.

but i always come back to gentoo, where i feel most at home.
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gerard27 · Posted: Thu May 12, 2011 10:16 am Post subject:

+1
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progo · n00b Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 31

Feel such a noob with my 4 years but haven't regretted a single minute of my journey.

I don't understand how others are able to mess up their setups. Haven't had any major problems as of yet.

platojones · Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 1:38 pm Post subject:

Chiitoo · Posted: Sat May 14, 2011 3:34 pm Post subject:

Nearing the 1 year mark of full-time using Gentoo at my desktop for everything I do (even gaming). Haven't had any big issues that I couldn't solve either alone or browsing the documents/forum, and there really were no big issues.

After some recent updates, the KDE system monitor's system load tab has stopped showing CPU and Network History but I'm assuming I'd easily fix it, if I wanted to, but can't really bother to. This is an example of a "big" issue that I have had and I don't even care enough to look into it! Probably just need to re-build some package(s) but yeah, point being, I'm still happy with it and have not had any thoughts of using another OS instead.

Windoze is still installed but I really have not needed it for anything. ^^

I can't really contribute myself to this all, which I feel is a shame, and I can't thank enough the people who are maintaining and developing the packages, not to forget the great people helping at the forum, but here's to everyone evenly: Thank you!

I also can't imagine people stopping using Gentoo. And as long as there are users, I can't imagine Gentoo sinking anywhere like certain people tend to think. And if it did, I think cach0rr0 would bring it right back up after sinking with it (not that he'd be alone).

Edit:

Resolved the issue with the system monitor after the KDE update by simply removing the corresponding file(s) at /home/username/.kde4/share/apps/ksysguard/ and having them re-created when starting the application anew.
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dol-sen · Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 8:23 pm Post subject:

yep, 9 years, 4 main systems + laptop + other old hardware projects for me too.
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