I recall many years ago being a big Gentoo fan (around the time Ubuntu first launched). I fell out of love with it for one of the same reasons that the author said: upgrading dependencies breaking things that you usually never heard of.
The community support was hit and miss. Sometimes they'd be great, even when you were a bit salty. Sometimes, however, they were pretty hostile. The straw that broke the camel's back was being told it was my fault for upgrading packages without deep knowledge of the full implications of doing so.
The community support was hit and miss. Sometimes they'd be great, even when you were a bit salty. Sometimes, however, they were pretty hostile. The straw that broke the camel's back was being told it was my fault for upgrading packages without deep knowledge of the full implications of doing so.