[srazzaque]

Ha! I was a wimp and did a "stage 3" install back in the day. Or was it stage 2? (shrug). Now I'm even wimpier and just use Fedora.

Came across this page, on the motivations of Gentoo, a few years later:

> Installing a working Linux box used to require over 550 man hours, learning a Nordic language, sacrificing a goat, wading through hundreds of pages of (purposely) inscrutable help files...Old-school Linux users were desperate to find a new way to feel superior.

https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/Gentoo

[speed_spread]

It honestly wasn't bad at all. Daniel Robbins documentation for Gentoo is still one of the best doc I've ever read and I'm sure he inspired many others. IMO It's actually the greatest thing about Gentoo (along with Portage).