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Gee, thanks. Split from the 10-year-old [topic=393685]What is the one thing you love most about Gentoo?[/topic] — [profile=101148]JRG[/profile]

One of the things I like about Gentoo is the ability to post a message to the forum no matter how old the original post is. I consider this rather important, because there might be others who can benefit from whatever was discussed a number of years ago. This isn't always true in other distros' forums; the moderators often ask you to leave the old threads alone.
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sol

Yes, I've just read all 5 pages and throughly enjoyed it.

Thanks for the 10yr necro

Do you mean that after today we'll have to wait ten years before being able to write again about how much we love Gentoo?

Just think of the things that weren't around ten years ago. Some were good, some were bad, and some--ahem--were very bad. Gentoo has been pretty good about navigating around all that.

I like my ability to choose. Thank you.

lol @ dependency hell

Someone please define "dependency hell"

I can define that in one word: PERL



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Gentoo is the only distro with I can relatively easily configure as I want. While keeping things off my system that I do not want to have.
So if the system has sufficient CPU power to handle the compile runs, I prefer gentoo.

solamour wrote:This isn't always true in other distros' forums; the moderators often ask you to leave the old threads alone.
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sol

*cough* Arch *cough*

I love Gentoo because it doesn't hold my hand or baby me. It doesn't try to protect me from myself. And when I break it, all of the tools I need to fix it are available to me. This has not be my experience on any other distro. The others are more fragile. You have to do things the "correct" way or they end up fubar'ed (Ever break apt? Oh my goodness!).

Other distros are like Ikea furniture.
Gentoo is like a stack of planed wood, nails, and varnish.

Definitely the community. The last post I made before this one was years ago and I can still see the community helping people and having fun simultaneously.

I still remember browsing the forums in links (or lynx...I can't remember anymore) when I first tried building it and I had removed windows on the only PC I had and so was trying to write posts, typing out all the errors by hand because I had no mouse or gui working) trying to get the thing working. I've learned more from this community than any other. For me, it's this community that makes it great and continues to make Gentoo great.