It has been actually over a year since my “Goodbye Gentoo” post. I have been wanting to get away from Gentoo for a long time now because of how the Gentoo community has fallen apart. It was bad a year ago, and it has become only worse. The number of developers that left Gentoo is astounding.
You know things are bad when Flameeye’s himself is “disappointed” with Gentoo.
I had hoped to get rid of Gentoo back when I posted, but unfortunately have been too busy with things until now. I first installed Xubuntu on my laptop. Everything went completely smoothly, so I decided to to install it on my main system. Now I am installing it on my server and my work machine.
The only slight problem I ran into was migrating Thunderbird. In Gentoo, Thunderbird stores the files in .thunderbird, whereas Xubuntu stores them in .mozilla-thunderbird, which means a simple mv .thunderbird .mozilla-thunderbird solved the problem.
The best part I like about X/Ubuntu is the ability to setup a LUKS Encrypted Filesystem during the install. This allows you to have your whole file system(except the /boot partition) to be completely encrypted. It was just a few clicks and now I have an extra layer of protection on my system.
Anyways, I just have one thing to say, please X/Ubunty community, don’t turn into another Gentoo. I am tired of having to switch to a new distro every 2-3 years.
Welcome to Ubuntu Community.
Comment by Amol — March 18, 2008 @ 1:17 am
You should have gone with Slackware.
I wouldn’t worry that it would change anytime soon :)
Comment by Zmyrgel — March 18, 2008 @ 8:57 am
I used slackware before, I just got tired of having to build more things that I should have to from source. I am a very busy person, so the less administration and error-hunting I have to do, the better.
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