User:Mimosinnet

I am a social psychologist and started using gentoo in 2006. Mandriva was my first distribution. It was nice when it worked, but I felt totally helpless when something went wrong. I do not have any training or education in computer science. After falling into a login screen saying "username:" I moved to gentoo. I just followed the handbook without clearly understanding what I was doing. I understood later on, while doing things. I now have a binary host for all my boxes, and I have gentoo in my laptops, desktops and servers. Nowadays, I can easily move to any other distribution and yes, I have tried Arch Linux. It is like my binary host but without customization.

I started using KDE, but compilation times moved me to other desktop and window managers. I spent some time with WindowMaker and FVWM; I learned a lot with them. Played with Enlightenment, IceWM, Fluxbox, Awesome,... Also tried the minimalistic window managers like xmonad, wmii, Ratpoison and Ion. I am now living happily with [http://i3 https://i3wm.org/].