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I stumbled upon a small article on newsforge about what the linux distribution your are using indicates about your personality.

I must say that some of the points are dead on, I however have a few extra comments on some of the distributions based my personal experience.

Debian - it seem as if many of the debian users has chosen it to be cool and because all their other cool friends use it. Many of them have just as much trouble with the package system (supposed to be the best part of debian) as the rest of us do if not more, so why even bother?

Gentoo - Having supervised a friends battle with gentoo (reinstall after reinstall) for the last year or so, and listening to him explain why he use gentoo matches exactly with the article's description of a common gentoo user. They are willing to spend countless hours compiling and re-compiling every single program in hope of getting a 1% better performance, but I have not noticed any difference performance wise compared to my mandrake installation. When it comes down to counting time gained from the performance boost, I would prefer spending the week of compile time coding on one of my projects.

That is it for now - more random thoughts will most likely come soon.