Run into a problem while using a Linux system? You'd better have nothing better to do with yourself, because you're going to be spending an out-of-this-world amount of time figuring out why. Why is this? Because NOBODY seems to be able to support anything, under any circumstances (unless you went and paid for RedHat or whatever the hell they call it now).
Furthermore, Linux devs are infalliable creatures. They do not make mistakes. They do not forget to upload source files. When 'emerge system' on your Gentoo box fails because it couldn't fetch all the source, the fact that the requisite files just plain do not exist on the server is your fault. Why are you building bzip2 anyway? (uh, because this is a brand new stage1 installation?)
And then when someone FINALLY decides to try to figure out what in the name of satan is going on, they go silent after you give them some basic information which you'd already volunteered 15,000 times - and then start helping someone who fscked up and deleted xorg.conf
"Have you searched for a previously reported bug?" is the standard. "Yes, and there's nothing relevant" is the appropriate reply. But, "Then submit one" is the cry. Of course, nevermind the technical impossibilities of submitting a useful bug report without having an SSH window to copy/paste from (because you can't build the damn sshd, because, for some ungodly reason, it's dependent on bzip2)
So - with this, I scrap 12 hours of work and arguing with kiddies on IRC and move to yet another pansyass half-OS - because there is yet to be a non-brokeassed routing solution for Windows.
Furthermore, Linux devs are infalliable creatures. They do not make mistakes. They do not forget to upload source files. When 'emerge system' on your Gentoo box fails because it couldn't fetch all the source, the fact that the requisite files just plain do not exist on the server is your fault. Why are you building bzip2 anyway? (uh, because this is a brand new stage1 installation?)
And then when someone FINALLY decides to try to figure out what in the name of satan is going on, they go silent after you give them some basic information which you'd already volunteered 15,000 times - and then start helping someone who fscked up and deleted xorg.conf
"Have you searched for a previously reported bug?" is the standard. "Yes, and there's nothing relevant" is the appropriate reply. But, "Then submit one" is the cry. Of course, nevermind the technical impossibilities of submitting a useful bug report without having an SSH window to copy/paste from (because you can't build the damn sshd, because, for some ungodly reason, it's dependent on bzip2)
So - with this, I scrap 12 hours of work and arguing with kiddies on IRC and move to yet another pansyass half-OS - because there is yet to be a non-brokeassed routing solution for Windows.
