During the first impressions of said distro, what feature surprised you the most?

  • HarriPotero@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Not bashing on Gentoo or anything, but it’s when I realized why Arch was “simple.”

    That’s funny. I switched from Slackware to Gentoo in 2003 because it was simpler.

    • fool@programming.dev
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      2 months ago

      Yeah, it’s pretty funny how distros just passed each other by like that. Back then it was Debian that was regarded as the hyper-poweruser distro:

      The reason I havn’t used Debian is because I can’t install it. “This guy is totally clueless” you might think. My only response is that I’m writing this on a Gentoo box that I have installed myself.

      And then now there are plenty of people reading this thread who liked Windows 7. As time passed, their grade on the ease-of-use of A passed the don’t-get-in-my-way of B, and a load of Windows 10ers jumped ship to Linus & Friends, the last place their Windows 7 selves would have expected to go. Always a reminder that the end of history isn’t now.