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For me it was both. And it tought me to 'rice' NetBSD like Gentoo, being spoiled by its use-flags. Didn't translate 1 to 1 OFC, but was very noticable. Also n

For me it was both. And it tought me to 'rice' NetBSD like Gentoo, being spoiled by its use-flags. Didn't translate 1 to 1 OFC, but was very noticable. Also noticable were the many bugs you ran into on the way. But... No risk? No Fun! No pain? No gain!

jambalaya8 2mo ago
What were you risking if you were just a hobbyist? Sincere question.
- LargoLasskhyfv 2mo ago
  Uh, much wasted time for one? Be it due to destroyed filesystems because of ugly hard crashes, because the optimizations I applied during compiling without really understanding them(at that time) gave me many, many surprises, or the potential of destroyed hardware? Yes, you could overdrive your screens into magic blue smoke. Or speaking wrong to some interface-card, say SCSI, or ATA-CDROM. All of that could happen. I only suffered from destroyed filesystems, though. Phew!
  - jambalaya8 2mo ago
    It isn't wasted time if you learn something, though, is it? To be fair, as a hobbyist I only ever really experimented as far as I could afford if the hardware broke, and anything too experimental I kept the only version of any data off of (that used to be way pricier in time and materiels though, true).
    - LargoLasskhyfv 2mo ago
      The learning could have been more straight forward with better guidance, maybe less weed too ;->