On Thu, 2012-09-13 at 10:36 +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> After all, one can drive a car quite well without knowing much about
> internal combustion engines.
I agree. OTOH in German driving school they teach it in the past,
perhaps they still do it today, but during the tests they didn't ask
about that knowledge. FWIW it's possible to touch a motor. Understanding
software requires more abstract thinking, because you can't touch it.
Most of "us" prefer to create our computer environments, most "averaged
users" want a tool, they won't create the tool, but they want to use the
tool, that fit best to their needs. Some people have never heard about
Linux, other people know it, but it's not their tool, because it doesn't
fit, to much work is needed to set it up.
Imagine this not as an analogy, but reality:
"We Linux people" want a raw knife and make it a steak knife or
a fish knife, "averaged people" simply want a steak knife and a
fish knife.
I assume that everybody on that list agrees that using a ready
build steak knife or fish knife indicates a lack of
self-responsibility.
I suspect nearly nobody of us in reality manufactures the needed knifes,
most of us are that non-self-reliant, that we got ready to use knifes.
So we can't expect that every Linux user should learn much about
computers.
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