On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 04:19:30PM +0400, Dmitry E. Oboukhov wrote: > >> Well, actually configuring a wireless network with wpa_supplicant and > >> ifupdown is not hard at all and does not require too much time, _if_ a > >> user has developed a good habbit of reading documentation first. > > JM> It seems to be a common belief between some developers that users should > JM> have to read dozens of pages of documentation before attempting to do > JM> anything. > > JM> I’m happy that not all of us share this elitist view of software. I > JM> thought we were building the Universal Operating System, not the > JM> Operating System for bearded gurus. > > User MUST study each OS he uses. If he doesn't want he will be > forced to pay the other people who will tune his (user's) system. > > There is no discrimination here. > > I'm not a guru, but I don't understand why Debian must be broken to > please a user who doesn't want to read anything.
For most people, a computer is just a tool. A versatile and complex tool, yes, but not all that complexity has to be exposed by default. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110404145947.gm2...@decadent.org.uk