[tux]

>> my system is completely updated.

> That really sounds simple. The common computer user is not even going to understand a single one of those statements.

Reads like English to me. Not sure what the trouble is.


> Gentoo was never designed for end-users. My grandmother will never tweak her GCC settings or know what the heck fomit-frame-pointer means. I don't think I'll see my 9 year old sister compiling Open Office [...]

Well... in this particular forum, I hope I am speaking to technically capable people who are not so ossified in their ways that they might be interested in trying something _better_.

Sure, Gentoo is a "meta-distribution", but for me that just means that it is perfectly optimized for my needs. That said, my "make.conf" is pretty vanilla. I am not very interested in tweaks, just ease of use.

It seems to me that people out there building their own robots might be interested in leading-edge technology. It is a bit scary to me how few FIRST participants seem to be interested in alternative operating systems.

How much FIRST programmer time has been wasted on battling spyware, viruses and junk? Too much, if you ask me.

It scares me when people scan the monitors in our linux lab, fail to find the little blue "e" and ask "Hey! Where's the internet?"

I guess for most people, windows is "good enough", but not for me.