The way some people 'argue' makes every argument futile.
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Jaromil wrote:
> from what I understand Simon is saying here, he is not being
> understood really. What he is suggesting is to add a small
> documentation text that, in case one doesn't knows what to choose,
> mentions what is the most common choice in case of most common setups
> (today is clear
On Thu, 21 Jun 2018 at 08:41:18 +0200
KatolaZ wrote:
> I think you probably missed the point here. believe it or not, there
> are genuinely thousands of people who use i686 images because they
> happen to have i686 machines. The percentage of those in Devuan is not
> that different from the perce
dear Katolaz
On Thu, 21 Jun 2018, KatolaZ wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:58:56PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote:
> > I think you missed the point.
> >
> > All I’m suggesting is that on the download page there are the
> > AMD64 images first, then a note giving very basic suggestions not
> > to us
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 11:58:56PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote:
> KatolaZ wrote:
>
> >>> Of course they are, it's all over the Internet.
> >>
> >> Being pedantic, that’s not the same - and you **should** know that.
> >> IMO there’s a choice to be made - do we (collectively) want to be
> >> inclus
On Wed, 20 Jun 2018 at 14:07:51 +0200
KatolaZ wrote:
> And this is not at all elitism: it's just the humble admission that
> what is "True" for me might not be "THE Truth" for everybody, and that
> what is important, crucial, fundamental for me might be just bullshit
> for the rest of the world.
KatolaZ wrote:
>>> Of course they are, it's all over the Internet.
>>
>> Being pedantic, that’s not the same - and you **should** know that.
>> IMO there’s a choice to be made - do we (collectively) want to be inclusive
>> and support all those who don’t know much about computing but want to tr
Quoting Erik Christiansen (dva...@internode.on.net):
> On 20.06.18 12:04, Simon Hobson wrote:
> > FWIW, even technical users can lack what some may think is “really
> > basic knowledge” - I fell that the most important thing I’ve learned
> > over the years is just how much I don’t know !
>
> Desp
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 07:08:36AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> At one time there were comments that not all packages were available on
> amd64. Even today that can be true, especially for some third party
> stuff. To wit, a prominent manufacturer of amateur radio equipment
> offers utilities fo
On 20.06.18 14:07, KatolaZ wrote:
> I will continue telling people what I think they should know, but the
> only way out of ignorance is knowledge, awareness, and individual
> action. You can't force people to get interested, to learn, to become
> responsible, to understand, to agree with you, to e
At one time there were comments that not all packages were available on
amd64. Even today that can be true, especially for some third party
stuff. To wit, a prominent manufacturer of amateur radio equipment
offers utilities for its hardware for Linux in addition to the other
two, but the Linux ve
On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 12:04:32PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote:
> Alessandro Selli wrote:
> >
> >> The problem is that people are not told why they should away from i386, and
> >
> > Of course they are, it's all over the Internet.
>
> Being pedantic, that’s not the same - and you **should** know
On 20.06.18 12:04, Simon Hobson wrote:
> FWIW, even technical users can lack what some may think is “really
> basic knowledge” - I fell that the most important thing I’ve learned
> over the years is just how much I don’t know !
Despite using *nix exclusively for three decades now, linux for around
Alessandro Selli wrote:
>
>> The problem is that people are not told why they should away from i386, and
>
> Of course they are, it's all over the Internet.
Being pedantic, that’s not the same - and you **should** know that.
IMO there’s a choice to be made - do we (collectively) want to be inc
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