2009/2/9 James Mckenzie <jjmckenzi...@earthlink.net>: > Thus, the need for the warning. Experts tend to know what they are doing, > newbies don't for the most part. And yes, I borked many a system as a newbie > and as an expert (building kernels for RedHat/Fedora for my Thinkpad.
Yep. The problem is that newbies are coming from Windows - (a) where the answer to inability to do something is to try again as administrator (b) which sometimes takes precautions to keep you from shooting your foot off. Solutions: 1. Get better newbies. (Strikes me as unlikely.) 2. Something to help stop them shooting their foot off that won't hamper those who really want to do this. - d.
