Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore

[Dale]

Mark Knecht wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 1:21 AM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
> <SNIP>
>> Life is full of silly and not-so-silly conventions and /dev/dvd is one
>> of them. It has no good reason to be there, and equally no good reason
>> to not be there, but you already fixed your stuff to make it do what
>> you want.
> <SNIP>
>> --
>> Alan McKinnon
> Alan,
>    Maybe in the future you'll consider this story: For your
> entertainment, please imagine an 82 year old woman who, unknown to
> anyone, has somehow gone beyond simple web browsing and email and
> managed to teach herself to watch a DVD on her Gentoo laptop. Possibly
> she is hard of hearing? This works well for her as she can use
> headphones and listen at levels that work for her any time of day or
> night. Once you get your head around that picture, please imagine this
> user being frustrated for _months_ when her 'no good reason to be
> there DVD' goes away. This user feels, for no good technical reason,
> that she has somehow hurt her computer and worse worries about the
> costs of fixing it. She remains silent, doesn't ask for help and loses
> access to something that she enjoys all because someone in the dev
> community decides to 'make a change'.
>
>    Not every user (of Gentoo or any other distro) lives in the
> rarefied world of a Linux Sys Admin, much less the far more lowly and
> infinitely more mundane world I inhabit. My experience is that people
> almost always need a little help and almost never ask.
>
> Over and out,
> Mark
>
>


I have a better question.  Why is a 82 year old woman using Gentoo?  If
she installed Gentoo, updated Gentoo then she must be able to do
something with Gentoo, right? 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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