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  • I ran it about 5 years ago. A friend had trouble getting the Nvidia closed source drivers installed so I spun up an install to get it done. I was able to figure it out. There was an error message that either she didn’t spot or maybe didn’t find a resolution too.

    I do like Gentoo primarily because I am a troubleshooter at heart, I just don’t always have the time to deal with a broken system anymore.

    I do get tempted to run it on bare metal from time to time. The last time I tried to install it in VirtualBox, it didn’t work out unfortunately.



  • I had never installed Linux before. Back in 2006 my old college roommate told me that he was reading about it. I used Solaris Spark workstations back in college, but never ran Linux before. My other roommate ran Slackware which looked cool but I never looked into it. Anyway I had recently built a custom PC and I was trying to avoid paying the windows tax, and was growing tired of having to reinstall the cracked version I was using of “corporate windows xp” so I pulled up the installation guide, printed it out, and proceeded to install the stage 1 tarball.

    It definitely was a trial by fire. I learned a tremendous amount, and I don’t regret any of it.

    I even was playing WoW under Cedega.

    I did eventually pick up a copy of Windows XP to run in parallels for Linux, and unfortunately, had to give it up for Windows XP as the main os due to Blizzard banning people who were playing Linux at the time.

    I miss it sometimes, but I don’t have the free time to properly maintain an install of Gentoo.

    I usually run Linux Mint on my VMs and test bench hardware however because it just works.

    I ran Arch briefly but my conclusion was that if I wanted Ck and bl torture, I would just main Gentoo again.




  • There are administration tools available for system deployment but they’re generally closed source and limited to the software selection available.

    Unsure about command line, but PC Decrapifier is useful for removing preloaded software.

    Ninite is useful to install software in batch.

    Ninite can also install Malwarebytes, which is quite useful.

    Between Windows Defender and Malwarebytes I generally don’t recommend anything else. And then Malwarebytes, which is extremely effective for free, is the only security suite worth paying for if you want to “set it and forget it”.

    On the Microsoft side of things, a great deal of software can be deployed via command line.

    It’s possible to build an offline installer for Office and Office 365 for example via the office deployment tool.

    Additionally, it looks like if you pay for Ninite Pro, it supports command line.

    https://ninite.com/help/features/switches.html

    Hmm TIL.







  • I generally seem to have had a good experience with Linux Mint. I use the cinnamon version.

    Even dist upgrades don’t seem to be too much trouble.

    I used to main Gentoo but that was a lot of work. I still miss it though, but that was almost 20 years ago, when I was unemployed, and had more free time than money.

    I run Windows 10 on my personal laptop and I look at these changes for the sake of change and I am seriously considering wiping it and not just use Linux in a VM.