Ah... it's good to be back! =^.^=
Nov. 13th, 2003 08:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wolfwingsSure took long enough, but my computer is back in action.
I've officially learned to curse every last source-based distro for one very simple reason.
None of them, not every Gentoo or Sourcerer/SourceMage, would let me manually correct problems. Either the fully-automated scripting worked (which it did 99.9% of the time) or I couldn't do anything at all.
That's everything that's bad about MicroSoft, and about Linux, rolled into one. Being locked into a propietary and poorly-documented maintenance system you can't interact with, AND getting to wait hours for a program to compile. Yay... </SARCASM>
And the sad fact? After over a week of trying to get different distro's in sequence, giving each of them at least 2 days, it took me all of one afternoon to download, burn, install, AND recompile most of my system from scratch with a distro that installs binary packages to get things running the first time. And I could correct errors as they occured, without any problem at all.
Because to this day, make and configure are still used for a reason after all these years. They're easy to manipulate when something goes wrong, letting humans do what humans do best. Kludge fixes together to get things working.
I've officially learned to curse every last source-based distro for one very simple reason.
None of them, not every Gentoo or Sourcerer/SourceMage, would let me manually correct problems. Either the fully-automated scripting worked (which it did 99.9% of the time) or I couldn't do anything at all.
That's everything that's bad about MicroSoft, and about Linux, rolled into one. Being locked into a propietary and poorly-documented maintenance system you can't interact with, AND getting to wait hours for a program to compile. Yay... </SARCASM>
And the sad fact? After over a week of trying to get different distro's in sequence, giving each of them at least 2 days, it took me all of one afternoon to download, burn, install, AND recompile most of my system from scratch with a distro that installs binary packages to get things running the first time. And I could correct errors as they occured, without any problem at all.
Because to this day, make and configure are still used for a reason after all these years. They're easy to manipulate when something goes wrong, letting humans do what humans do best. Kludge fixes together to get things working.