On Thu, Jun 10, 1999 at 09:31:54AM +0200, Urban Gabor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > no disrespect, but M$ makes you forget thinking. (Cf the subscription! :-) > ) > > I would suggest an other install description with step-by-step texts of > what to do. And redesinging Debian web site can help a lot. >
It is not Wintendo that makes people forget how to think, it is something else. This is a problem with people in general, not just in relation to computers. No one wants to think, because they're used to having things spoon-fed to them. That's what "push" content was all about, people have to be kept glued to the TVs, we can't have them going back to reading, learning, and thinking. We should not encourage this process. I see so many questions on this list that shouldn't be answered. Instead, the user should be told how to use man pages, info pages, etc. For example, someone asked if there was a package containing the Howtos. Instead of telling him the name of the package, he should have been told how to grep the Contents file, that way he can find things on his own instead of asking the list every time. Remember, catch a man a fish and you feed him that day, teach the man to fish, and he'll never starve again. -- Eric Gillespie, Jr. <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Don't you try to out-weird me! I get stranger things than you free with my breakfast cereal! --Zaphod Beeblebrox
