I failed the ArchLinux "rite of passage". Tried really hard both in a VM for practice and on a real computer but I never got past the installation screen. Oh well :)

Ooh, nice! I hadn't really looked at that yet. I will definitely keep my eyes on that!

That "everything you need you must compile first" mentality of Gentoo its quite fun. In the sense of pure madness that is. "Hey, a new JVM update! Better compile the 4 million LOC jvm again!".

That "everything you need you must compile first" mentality of Gentoo its quite fun. In the sense of pure madness that is. "Hey, a new JVM update! Better compile the 4 million LOC jvm again!".

I ran it on a box at my last job for a while, though I can't for the life of me remember why...

I finally switched it back to Ubuntu after having to recompile the full system 3 times in a week.

I don't think I'll ever want to have to manually compile my operating system. It just sounds frustrating. This is why I like things like Linux Mint.