The paper book you had reminds me of the very thick stack of printed papers that is the Gentoo installation guide circa 2005. It was my first foray into Linux a

The paper book you had reminds me of the very thick stack of printed papers that is the Gentoo installation guide circa 2005. It was my first foray into Linux and I, for macho reasons, went with Gentoo. I think I gave up after a day, tried Fedora, and settled on Ubuntu.