> From: Chris Murphy <li...@colorremedies.com> > > On Mar 12, 2013, at 12:19 PM, john.flor...@dart.biz wrote: > > > > I personally could not care less about the defaults Fedora uses. > I've been overriding them for years. I'm just glad I was able to > learn these things before everything became hidden. > > Because, naturally, you don't explore, find, or learn anything > hidden.
No, I do find it, but at considerable expense sometimes which only decreases the value I find in any such system, Fedora or otherwise. > > Today's youth have none of the curiosity that I and my friends > had at their age and I blame it on this "you don't need to know how > it works" mentality that is infecting everything. > > Oh that's original. Your parents and grandparents never, ever said > anything like this. They never said it to me. They encouraged my exploration despite situations where I maybe I should have been held back, but I learned and yes sometimes the very hard way. I see that way being replaced with fear, apprehension and avoidance; just be a consumer and stop trying to be a producer. From my POV, it's a sad progression, but hey that's just me and my screwed up perspective. > > If you really want that Apple experience, why don't you just use > their goods? > > I do. Curious, isn't it, how I managed to stumble into linux boot > loading, and file systems of all things, never having a single > chance of seeing such things? They weren't merely hidden from me. > They didn't even exist. Well good for you, but why make it harder than it needs to be? -- John Florian
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