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   On 16 Sep 20  13:25:10, Benny Pedersen said the following to Nick Andre:   
      
   BP>  NA> I prefer to have my computers work for me and not the other way    
   BP>  NA> around.   
   BP>    
   BP> self made is not good ?, i just try keep away from precompiled problems :)   
      
   But thats the thing. *Everything* on Gentoo had to be compiled. Forget about a   
   Gentoo machine you can slap together in an hour or so to listen to music on,   
   watch movies, gaming, porn, etc. You spend more time screwing around with   
   compilers and all that just to have that feeling that its customized just for   
   you... Sorry, its just not something that floats my boat.   
      
   The end result of that custom Gentoo Linux box was really no different than if   
   I threw in a live-CD install of Xubuntu or Mint or something. With those    
   distros it mostly "worked" but given the nature of Linux, no offense to anyone   
   reading this, theres always fucking *something* that just doesn't work out of   
   the box like it does on Windows. As an example, I'm not replacing a video    
   card just because Linux can't make it work. Money doesn't grow on trees.   
      
   I know you're just being a silly Russian but if you don't like precompiled   
   stuff, that must logically mean you study *all* the source code that you    
   compile. Because... how do you know theres not some backdoor or vulnerability?   
   Have you personally combed through the entire Linux kernal source?   
      
   Nick   
      
   --- Renegade vY2Ka2   
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