User:Mimosinnet

I work as a social psychologist and started using gentoo in 2006. I started with GNU/Linux on 2005 and Mandriva was my first distribution. While it was nice while it worked, I was lost when something went wrong. After being helpless in front of a text login scrceen, I just moved to gentoo. Despite not having any training or education in computer science, following the gentoo handbook without clearly understanding what I was doing opened the doors to a bleeding-edge Shangri-la. I also understood that "bleeding-edge" had many different meanings ;-) I am now proud of having a binary host for all my boxes: laptops, desktops and servers. Nowadays, I can easily move to any other distribution. Yes, I have tried Arch Linux: it is like a binary gentoo host without customization.

While I continued to use KDE at the beginning, compilation times moved me to other desktop and window managers. I spent some time with WindowMaker and FVWM and I learned a lot with them. Played with Enlightenment, IceWM, Fluxbox, Awesome,... Also tried minimalistic window managers like xmonad, wmii, Ratpoison and Ion. I am now in heaven with [http://i3 https://i3wm.org/].