Sigh. We must run such criticism through the JH filter, and see if anything survives.
When facts fail you, fall back to character attacks.
Never use character attacks, even when a character is accusing you of doing so.
When facts fail you, advance forward to methodology and logic.
I like Oren's approach, which is: often more important than who is right is the overall teamwork effect. This is methodology triumphing over fact.
You were disparaging an entire distro: Gentoo. I was revealing that you possibly didn't understand how to run it yet, and that it is better to say kind things about that which you do not understand. You later returned to say kind things about Gentoo. I consider the job well done.
-Jared
p.s. while we're on the subject of character attacks, is there anything you *don't* disparage? Look through your posts to KCLUG for the past decade and see what I mean. Almost all of mine are off-topic. Almost all of yours are insulting or complaining about something or another. I'm working on getting on topic.