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On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de> wrote: |
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> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: |
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>> wrong. The installation needs a certain difficulty to keep idiots away. |
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>> Nobody needs idiots (except maybe ubuntu). |
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> That is insulting. My mother uses Ubuntu. Thanks for calling her an idiot. |
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> Obviously if someone wants to use his computer in order to get something |
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> done without doing a Ph.D on Portage and /etc first, then that person is an |
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> idiot. |
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> Great thinking. Fortunately, there are people (like the Ubuntu folks) who |
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> don't think that way and are trying to make Linux more popular to people who |
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> need a computer to do tasks that are not related to the computer itself. |
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Idiot is such a strong word (I should probably get another name for my dog). |
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The type of user I don't like is the ignorant type. Innocent users are |
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ok, they don't know, but ignorant users choose not to know. And so |
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often these ignorant users demand that they should be able to do |
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anything on a computer. If you wish to benefit from using computers, |
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you should be prepared to spend some time to get to know how the stuff |
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works. The more you want to do, the more you need to know. Not: "I |
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want amarok without mysql and xyz plugin running all silky and smooth, |
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but don't give me any command line run-arounds or lots of talk about |
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USE flags". |
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Regards |
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Dirk |
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