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You and me both. But, we learned a lot. Nowadays I feel like Linux is my super power, OS, VM, Container, Nix-shell, WSL2. It’s all Linux. And you can drop me on
by teekert 3y ago
You and me both. But, we learned a lot. Nowadays I feel like Linux is my super power, OS, VM, Container, Nix-shell, WSL2. It’s all Linux. And you can drop me on any command line (even a BSD one to some extent) and I will feel at home and can solve problems. I’d like to think that’s where my happy time with Gentoo led to.
- jstummbillig 3y agoAnd no matter if its true (and it might well be!) the overarching tendency to look for reasons to explain time spent with Gentoo should probably tell us something. At best, we are at least a bit confused about it all.
- bee_rider 3y agoI never used Gentoo, but the time I spend screwing around in Arch was more educational than the video games I would have been playing, anyway.
- teekert 3y agoI had fun.
- teekert 3y agoI was confusing because you can’t install it without understanding stuff like fstab, grub, user creation etc. It sets you up to be a sysadmin, it requires you to be a sysadmin. Ubuntu on the other hand, looks and acts more like an iPad than Windows.
- oblio 3y agoI agree with you, but we're also lucky (or unlucky?) that the variety of out there's dropped a ton. If you can, try to get access to OpenVMS or Cisco IOS, it's an entirely different world in terms of user experience.