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mirage032 · Post by **mirage032** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 3:13 am

Gentoo was the distribution I used the longest as an end-user when I was a teen (2003-2004). I broke it and fixed it so many times.
I was patching the kernel 2.6 at every minor release to be able to use the unsupported ECI USB modem.
Then, I stopped: I went to Uni and moved on with life and travelling.
I was really time constrained for the stuff I needed to do afterwards.
17 years later, I reset my password forum (I hate forums)
I’m waiting for my work laptop to expire and maybe give it a go again.

So thank you all for being around in 2020. I now owe a big part of my troubleshooting skills!

Post by **Banana** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 7:29 pm

Welcome back and enjoy the ride

Post by **NeddySeagoon** » Tue Mar 31, 2020 10:15 pm

mirage032,

Nobody really leaves Gentoo. They just stray for a while. :)

Welcome back.

Post by **pjp** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 2:44 am

erumspringa.

MarioCorleone · Post by **MarioCorleone** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 3:12 am

Welcome back.. have a seat, take a look around... relax, kick your shoes off..... stay a while....

superjaded · Post by **superjaded** » Wed Apr 01, 2020 9:43 am

I can vouch for Neddy's observation. I strayed for probably more than 10 years (2005ish to 2017ish) by the time I had Gentoo running as my main host OS again. But once I started getting back into Linux at the end of 2016, it was inevitable that I'd be back.

I think I have control issues, so the fact I'm used to the level of customization Gentoo provides compared to binary based distributions means that I find it impossible to use other distributions on a visceral level, even if there may not be a huge practical difference between my Gentoo installation vs. other distroes. I met up with an old friend last year who has been working for Red Hat; we obviously talked linux a bit, and afterward I had an impulse to replace Gentoo with Fedora, mostly thinking that I may have better out of the box experience with VMs and docker, the latter of which I had only relatively recently started getting into at the time.

I was back to Gentoo within a week. I wouldn't even say my experience with VMs or Docker was particularly better in Fedora either, and its release schedule with respect to KDE in the KDE flavor was truly annoying. Everything else was pretty much rolling release, and I like getting the latest and greatest especially when it comes to KDE. I even tried using KDE's kdesrc-build script to build my own version of KDE, but I couldn't get it to work.

I'm probably preaching to the choir, but I never ceased to be impressed by the flexibility (and ease of use) that Portage provides for people like me with control issues.

Post by **Banana** » Sun Apr 05, 2020 10:06 am

MarioCorleone wrote:Welcome back.. have a seat, take a look around... relax, kick your shoes off..... stay a while....

The Offspring ?

paintchip · Post by **paintchip** » Tue Apr 21, 2020 2:13 am

Just when you thought you were out, we pull you right back in! You may stray, but Gentoo will always pull you back in.