Installed Linux on my laptop - impressions

[SuperDave]

alephnull said:

SuperDave said:
Seems like there's a lot of love for Ubuntu lately, I never did like it myself, got tired of dealing with sudo. I always preferred Gentoo back when Emerge was boss and other distro's didn't have anything to compare.

Since i haven't used Ubuntu in awhile, do you still have to use sudo for everything? Or have they cleaned that up a little?

 

I used debian (which I'm told Ubuntu is based off of) for years before eventually switching to gentoo maybe 4 years ago or something. Apt destroyes emerge in the speed with which it searches, package descriptions, etc. The only problem is that (and I just installed ELive on this new laptop to give it a whirl again) the dependency resolution for source packages was non-existant and aparently still doesn't work. Also, the config files just aren't as nicely organized as they are in gentoo.

 

Apt and Yum are also faster then Portage(Emerge) in that Portage compiles from source whereas Apt and Yum are rpm installers I believe? I always just found years ago that Portage was better at handling dependencies. That might not be the case today, might of just been the result of the distro I was using for Apt.

I actually find myself mostly using Yum these days, it's fast and usually quite capable of handling anything I need it for.