On Tue, Apr 05, 2011 at 02:31:40PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2011-04-04 17:31:18 +0400, Stanislav Maslovski wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 04, 2011 at 05:35:10PM +0530, Josselin Mouette wrote: > > > It seems to be a common belief between some developers that users should > > > have to read dozens of pages of documentation before attempting to do > > > anything. > > > > > > I’m happy that not all of us share this elitist view of software. I > > > thought we were building the Universal Operating System, not the > > > Operating System for bearded gurus. > > > > I do not think that reading documentation before trying to achieve > > something is that elitist. > > [About the general problem of documentation] > The problem is to find the correct tools and the correct documentation. > For instance, imagine the average user who wants for Ethernet (eth0), > to do the following automatically (for a laptop): > 1. use some fixed IP address if there's some peer 192.168.0.1 > with some given MAC address; > 2. otherwise, if an Ethernet cable is plugged in (and only in this > case), start a DHCP client; > 3. make things still work after a suspend/resume. [...]
The average user doesn't know what an IP address, MAC address or DHCP are. There's a reason why d-i defaults to DHCP without even asking now. 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/20110405123456.gu2...@decadent.org.uk