is gentoo your main OS?

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Sir No · Post by **Sir No** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 11:41 am

Yes, it is and I'm proud of it as hell.

Although I still have the XP/32 that came preinstalled with the laptop as well as XP/32 for Canon printer drivers (grrr)
plus XP/64 for testing on my home machine...

Usually I use x86 and amd64 Gentoo flavors, and ocasionally I boot into Ubuntu.
But Gentoo IS my main OS. And I like it that way.

codergeek42 · Post by **codergeek42** » Wed Aug 31, 2005 3:29 pm

butters wrote:
codergeek42 wrote:My current main OS is Fedora Core, and I've got Gentoo on another partitioning scheme on my slave disk. Prior to this, Gentoo was my main and only OS for about a year and a half.
Wow, ladies and gentlemen, we've lost codergeek42. The gentoo community must have truly fscked something up when we're now losing our most active citizens to RPM distros.

Not in the least. I replaced my mobo and CPU and screwed up some hardware configuration on my own, and with taking a trip to NY, resuming classes, etc. I really had no time to tweak with and alter various configurations to try to fix it. I needed a working system and was curious about some of the stuff Fedora had (GCC4, integrated targeted SELinux, etc.). Lots more on my blog archives if you're curious...

Actually, RPM isn't such a horrible packaging system once you get used to it. Things like Yum make life a lot nicer with automatic dependency resolution and repository selection, etc. It also uses SQLite for a backend of its metadata cache for quick searching.

I'm not going to ditch my current Gentoo machines (two laptops and a desktop) just yet, but if Arch is equally free of limitations, I might switch in the near future.

I don't know if you mind it or not, but the second of many reasons that I ditched Arch was because it encouraged the use of non-Free software.

StevenSeagal · Post by **StevenSeagal** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 10:42 am

My main OS is WinXP because i'm still not able to play all multimedia formats on my amd64 Gentoo, and also because of better driver support and "just works" in XP.

I'd really like to switch to Gentoo because of Gnome and Portage and free (of cost) software, but i think in Gentoo cool features are too inversely proportional to stability or time spent googling (very personal opinion).

Farner · Post by **Farner** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 1:14 pm

Yes, gentoo is my main os. Tho I also use Windows XP. Mostly because we are currently learning us VB.net in my school.

EzInKy · Post by **EzInKy** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 1:14 pm

Gentoo has been my main OS for the last three years and probably will be for a while longer but, after just finishing my first Linux From Scratch installation, I must say it has become too focused on ease of use and conformity at the cost of learning and freedom.

Phancy Physicist · Post by **Phancy Physicist** » Fri Sep 02, 2005 11:20 pm

Gentoo is my main OS. In fact I haven't used Windows since Last December.

khiloa · Post by **khiloa** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 2:50 am

Gentoo all the way on my computer.

Aynjell · Post by **Aynjell** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:37 am

I haven't installed windows in some months.

buckminster · Post by **buckminster** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 11:24 am

Gentoo is my main os on two different machines (amd 64 +3200 desktop, intel centrino laptop).

Although it is sometimes hard to keep these running and doing all the updates properly, I only use w2k for running dvd shrink and related stuff. (Yeah, I know there are guys who managed to get dvdshrink to work with wine. But not me).

All other stuff is done with Gentoo, and even my wife does her (e-mail/surfing)-stuff with gentoo.

Bye

Frank

asiobob · Post by **asiobob** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 1:05 pm

Gentoo is my main OS.
My desktop runs it, I still do have Windows XP but that's on vmware (which I ended up paying for) but I don't use it to much. Generally for testing websites I create in IE and flashing the ipod with new firmware

pjj · Post by **pjj** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 3:23 pm

Desktop : yes in the past (last 2 months mostly windows :S)
Laptop : No runs OSX with fink (maybe going to try gentoo for OSX)
Server : YES, but going to install debian on it today because of bigger harddrive and don't want to install anything again...

smartdreamer · Post by **smartdreamer** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 7:51 pm

Gentoo all the way. I'm spreading it wherever I can!
Just wiped my old windows partition the other day... I hadn't booted it for couple of months.
Happy gentooer here

Aynjell · Post by **Aynjell** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:09 pm

I recently switched to KDE from xfce and found I had everything I ever wanted in a computer, and all of it started with a k.

Well, not all of it. Turns out Juk is the best media player ever created (IMO). Then of course, k3b sorta just owns. I can go on and on, but when I found kdemultimedia-kioslaves, I was hooked.

geniux · Post by **geniux** » Sun Sep 04, 2005 8:13 pm

Aynjell wrote:I recently switched to KDE from xfce and found I had everything I ever wanted in a computer, and all of it started with a k.

Well, not all of it. Turns out Juk is the best media player ever created (IMO). Then of course, k3b sorta just owns. I can go on and on, but when I found kdemultimedia-kioslaves, I was hooked.

And that made you use Gentoo as your main OS?

koder · Post by **koder** » Tue Sep 06, 2005 7:38 pm

All Gentoo and nothing else!

This certainly is the best Linux experience as yet...

greetz
koder

To · Post by To » Tue Sep 06, 2005 8:10 pm

Not my main OS. Windows XP is, but I allways have a vnc open to other linux comp, most of the apps I run are win only... others I use on remote computer.

Tó

gullyg · Post by **gullyg** » Wed Sep 07, 2005 12:10 am

It's interesting no one has mentioned using OSX (or at least I didn't see anyone).

Systems in the flat

MythBox (Mythtv back and front end machine) - KnoppMyth with some serious hacks, ie Debian
Thinkpad Laptop - Gentoo
Desktop - OSX Tiger (Keep meaning to install gentoo but I'm really busy atm)

Flatmate's PC - Win2k (yuk!)

Iain

Qbrick · Post by **Qbrick** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 2:01 am

Hade gentoo and win XP on dualboot up until last week when I got my self a new harddrive.
The times I'd boot windows are easy to count.
Dual boot has proved to be waset off space, in my case.

Now I've got a windows free machine.

In the end there can be only one !!

Aynjell · Post by **Aynjell** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 2:53 am

I don't know why, but dual booting doesn't sit well with me. I can't seem to keep more than one operating system on my PC.

metalifloyd · Post by **metalifloyd** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 4:40 am

I use Gentoo exclusively for both work and home use. I have tried many other distributions and found Gentoo to be the easiest to maintain. Sure it has it quirks here and there but at least with Gentoo it's probably documented or someone in the forums already had that problem and has found a solution. I can't say the same for many other distributions or Windows for that matter.

Lars · Post by **Lars** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:57 am

I heard about gentoo for 2-3 years, I installed an very early 1.4 version and was suprised how good the simple design was, how easy it was to install new software. Ok, there are also some dark areas, like compile time, but since my Athlon64 helps me to compile for the other computers

(distcc) it is very great.
Change to other distris like RedHat, Suse, no change, NEVER.

I'm using Gentoo on a ASUS M8300 Laptop, P200MMX, K6-III450 & Athlon64 3000+ and also in company
There exist some Windows installation, but only for Bios updates, no more. Other Windows SW runs in a VMWare, QEmu box or via wine.

--
This is M$ my joke of the day:
I tried to install Windows98SE (simply boot from this CD) on a Athlon64 3000+ with 512MB, no change, doesn't work.

anello · Post by **anello** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 10:32 am

Laptop:
main: Gentoo
sec: WinXP

Server/Router: FreeBSD

simkin · Post by **simkin** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 11:11 am

Gerard van Vuuren wrote:I have Gentoo and Windows 98...

Me too, I need win98 for my Umax Astra 600P scanner. But definitively gentoo is my main, I only use windows for scanning :/

devsk · Post by **devsk** » Wed Sep 14, 2005 6:59 pm

yes, it was my main OS, until I discovered colinux. Now I am in colinux running my gentoo install most of the time. This gives me best of the both worlds. The day dell releases printer/fax drivers for 962 for linux, I think I will be back in gentoo native.

Plexroth · Post by **Plexroth** » Thu Sep 15, 2005 5:32 pm

Gentoo is my main distribution. I don't run any winderz at all. I maintain win2k boxes for my parents.

Every time I try another distro, it pales in comparison to Gentoo. Even with its few drawbacls, Gentoo Rucking Focks.

is gentoo your main OS?

is it your main?

YES YES YES