has thrown voidlinux with sowm on a friend's laptop... he (in his ignorance) wanted ubuntu.
<Digit>
now i'm thinking of going even further and instead giving him carbs (with sowm). :3
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<raph_ael>
merakor: I strangely can't get a kernel to boot, same config as for kiss
<merakor>
Digit: I would probably cry if I was using a source based distro when I was a newb
<merakor>
raph_ael: what's the exact issue?
<Digit>
other mad ideas include: including a keybind & commands cheatsheet on the background image (or in a conky or something lighter than conky), and a scipt to hijack with bedrock and add an unbuntu stratum for 'em. :3 lol. throwing them in the deep end twice.
<merakor>
I honestly think gentoo is the most unintuitive and hard to learn distribution in the world, you could install that for him :D
<Digit>
tried exherbo? :D
<merakor2>
I have heard it before but never checked it out :D
<merakor2>
Wow, an extra ruby dependency on their package manager
<merakor2>
So if it is a fork of portage, that makes bash, python, and ruby dependencies.