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Gentoo is a lot of fun, and very rewarding, but even though I am an avid user, it's not what you're looking for if you just want something to get some work done, though once it's set up, it's smooth sailing.

So, patsy: If you have a while to kill (as in, a few days), play with Gentoo! You will learn a lot!

It really helps if you have another computer available though, in case you get stuck in text mode. Or you want to know what to do next after getting the basic system installed. These days I end up not needing it, but I've also been using Gentoo for like two years now. It's not hard to set up, but since you're just at console, at least for a while, it can be scary if you're not used to it. If another computer isn't an option, there are text-mode browsers, as well as AIM and IRC clients, so you're not totally screwed if you don't mind the somewhat alien feel of text only.

There are lots of people who won't mind giving you a hand with it. I find the Gentoo community to be excellent, and very willing to fix their own problems. When I see Ubuntu, it looks like the blind leading the blind :/


DJ: One problem is you seem to demand certain applications from windows and are unwilling to investigate alternatives. If there's a popular win32 application, there's often a very suitable replacement. For example:
uTorrent -> Ktorrent
Media Player Classic -> MPlayer
WinAMP -> amaroK

Some things you are going to need wine for as they are win32 native. Steam, WoW, F.E.A.R... Depending on what you do with PS, you might be OK with The GIMP (which really, really needs a better name). Honestly though, Linux gaming isn't really there, and I definitely have a heavily customized WinXP install on both my laptop and desktop.

Firefox and MAME are platform agnostic.

I have an Audigy 2 ZS Platinum, it worked automagically. Getting nVidia drivers to work takes about 3 minutes (in Gentoo, it's typing 1 command, and then editing a config file).


Really though, it seems like you sort of locked yourself into the windows platform. I'm not one of the zealots that actually gives a shit, but it seems that Linux, in it's current iteration, isn't what you're really looking for in an OS. So, um, yeah, you were right in what you said earlier! I was just agreeing from the other side of the fence, I guess.
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nVidia's drivers have never given me problems?

What am I doing so horribly wrong?
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vi) RPGs (Role-Playing Games)
For adolescents; half-formed personalities roaming (in packs) in search of identity.

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