Quote Originally Posted by gtrmonkey
Have you ever made an hybrid verison of linux? Do you know even the advantage of using linux over windows? Have you ever compiled a keneral?
Do you know most of the sudo commands?

If all you know how to do is point click install, then why are you even using linux your wasting it potenial. And making things harder on yourself. It kind of like having a custom car and never ever tuning it. You know how much of the potenial is wasted. A shit load. Gosh man, this is about which os in general is better and I believe the point I have made is quite on topic.
Oh please man, youre talking out of your ass again. 5+ years ago when i first started using linux (i was using slackware at the time) I did compile kernels to add in networking card drivers that weren't available as modules. I also added support for a RAID card i was using at the time. Slackware didn't at that time (and still may not, im unsure) have a GUI installer, it was primarily text based, including manually setting partitions with fdisk. Fortunately since then driver support has increased tenfold and I haven't need to compile a kernel in many years.

FYI, I manage several servers (personal & at work) including W2K3 SBS in a Vmware session on Ubuntu, Windows file sharing with samba, intranet site with apache2, set up an on-site internet filtering & cache solution with SQUID and custom wrote http handling scripts to filter keywords etc WITH a redundant backup server and centralized cache, and also wrote a perl script to parse the log files for bandwidth accoutning through the proxy. I could literally go on for several hours about my experience. Im not the guy who is into trendy things and installed Linux because its hip.