On 04/06/15 21:31, Anto wrote:
On 04/06/15 20:51, Steve Litt wrote:
.
<snip>
.
Imagine the difference...
You come home from Costco clutching your brand new laptop, all hot and
bothered to install Devuan because you've heard it's simpler and better
made than the others. You boot your Devuan DVD, and it tells you your
network card needs a firmware. Fortunately for you, the documentation
*screamed* that you might need nonfree firmware, walked you through
exactly how to thumb-drive it, you use a different computer to put it
on the thumb drive, stick it in, try again, and the install goes
perfectly. Devuan was every bit as good as you thought.
Bottom line: Be on the same team as reasonable users.
SteveT
Steve Litt
June 2015 featured book: The Key to Everyday Excellence
http://www.troubleshooters.com/key
Hello Steve,
According to the approach that Daniel suggested as I understood it,
the story is a bit different...
You come home from Costco clutching your brand new laptop, all hot and
bothered to install Devuan because you've heard it's simpler and
better made than the others. You boot your Devuan DVD, and it tells
you your network card needs a firmware. Fortunately for you, the
documentation *screamed* that you might need nonfree firmware, walked
you through exactly how to thumb-drive it, you use a different
computer to put it on the thumb drive, stick it in, try again, The
installer gives you the option to choose the firmware from the
available list or abort the installation. As you trust the firmware,
you select it. If that would be proprietary firmware, you will be
given a license agreement to accept or reject it (to abort the
installation). After you read (assuming you have time) and accept the
license agreement, the install goes perfectly. Devuan was every bit as
good as you thought.
I am not sure thought if the installer would really do that.
Especially on the proprietary part, that looks exactly the same as
what Windows does (at work, I don't have any other choice rather than
using Windows).
Cheers,
Anto
Off topic.
I am not sure why my Thunderbird does not strike-through this sentence:
*Fortunately for you, the documentation *screamed* that you might need
nonfree firmware, walked you through exactly how to thumb-drive it, you
use a different computer to put it on the thumb drive, stick it in, try
again,*. So my email looks strange.
_______________________________________________
Dng mailing list
Dng@lists.dyne.org
https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
