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Nuvaro
Holey Amarrian Inquisition
Grand Inquisitors Federation
#1 - 2012-02-19 08:03:59 UTC
Hello, well after time and time of playing around and trying linux and some college face time with linux(years ago like 4) I am finally gonna nuke my laptop as i have a windows desktop and install linux on it(my laptop), and atemp to install and play eve as the only reason i have windows is for eve, I like linux and the community. well i am going to a tempt gentoo flavor as ive tried ubuntu kubuntu and even suse and did like them much. would any one have any recommendations or pointers to help me on this endever.AttentionQuestion
l0rd carlos
the king asked me to guard the mountain
#2 - 2012-02-19 16:44:30 UTC
So you gonna use your Windows Desktop for eve, and your linux laptop for other stuff?
With what do you need our help?

But yes, if you ask a more specific question i am sure we can help :)

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Nebu Retski
Lead Farmers
#3 - 2012-02-21 14:54:52 UTC
Well depending on your linux skill set Gentoo might not be the best idea. It is one of the most difficult distributions to handle mainly due to the fact that you pretty much compile everything from scratch and making a mistake can cost you a lot of time because you will need to recompile the affected packages again with the fixes. Some things don't take much time to compile while others can take several hours to compile.

An intermediate distribution that has some similarities with Gentoo is Arch linux. It is also a rolling release distribution, but it doesn't require you to compile everything from scratch which means you will not need as much time to install something as on Gentoo. Arch Linux also has an excellent wiki to help you out setting up your system.

If on the other hand you already have quite some experience with setting up Linux systems and you really want to step up your game, then by all means Gentoo is the way to go :-)