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Simon Stelling <blubb@g.o> posted 44F991D7.9060905@g.o, |
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excerpted below, on Sat, 02 Sep 2006 16:14:47 +0200: |
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> Edgar Hucek wrote: |
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>> I know my tools but not necessarly the normal user who wanna use gentoo |
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>> and is ending frustrated. |
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> If the users are too lazy to read the documentation, why should we care |
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> about them? |
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Exactly. |
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To such a "normal user", unwilling to invest the very real time and energy |
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into learning about Gentoo and how to customize it to his wishes, most if |
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not all Gentoo devs will be happy to recommend Ubuntu or whatever. Ubuntu |
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is by all reports a very respectable distribution, arguably one of the |
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most user friendly yet powerful out there. (Linspire/Freespire's probably |
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the most user friendly, disregarding power.) |
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Let Gentoo do what Gentoo does best, cater to those that /like/ that |
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customizability, even, perhaps /because/ of, the challenge of mastering |
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the machine and bending it to our will. There are plenty of other |
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distributions out there for those that are more interested in just having |
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it work, with as little knowledge and effort invested on their part as |
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possible. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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