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Originally Posted by war1025
you got rid of it because it was easy to work with?
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yes and no.
i removed it because it does some automatic things like setting up X and ALSA. for 6 months i used Fedora and for next 6 months i used Debian Sarge. i always had the problem with videos not playing properly. mplayer and xine said that XV driver does not exist for my graphics card. hence this XV problem is inherent in GNU.. that is exactly what i always thought and for 1.5 years i did NOT play any video as Linux lacks XV driver for my hardware. after 1.5 years i installed Gentoo and it *forced* me to do "Xorg -configure", a thing i never came across and it told me that i need VIA in the the driver section and videos played excellently in Gentoo, without XV.... then after that i installed Fedora and found that it was using VESA in "/etc/X11/xorg.conf", same for Debian. you always go to "GNOME menu -> Administration -> Services" to stop the services you do not need and in CRUX you add/remove from "/etc/rc.conf" much simpler solution.
problem was Debian/Fedora/Ubuntu give you ready made attitude of "why you care for low level details, when we set up all things for you" whereas with Gentoo/CRUX you are dead without manual interpretation of your system and ONLY then you know if system reports problem in A, then it does not mean problem is in A, in reality, as is my case, problem was in F but you never know that because, configurations happen automatically and system says there is not problem with F :-(... that is the problem with user-friendly distros and that is why they are easy to install and that is why i removed Debian/Fedora/Ubuntu from my system. Gentoo/CRUX are good for me but that is me, not you or some other user.
this was just a *small* part of my experience. i have written a full article on it at my BLOG, check it if you like to.
