On 2005-05-15, Alex Malinovich penned: > > On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 10:42 -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: >> On 2005-05-14, Ron Johnson penned: >> > >> > Prettier??? Is that what's keeping your SO from using Linux? >> > >> Stereotype much? > > You'll have to pardon me while I play devil's advocate here :), but > the gender of the significant other wasn't specified (though it > obviously may have been implied). And, since it wasn't, in-fact, > specified, then your response could be construed as a stereotype of > the gender of a significant other.
See, I thought about this, especially because Ron said "SO" instead of some more gender-specific term. Either he's implying something about the OP's female partner, or he's implying something about the OP's gay male partner. Either way, it's a stereotype. I didn't say anything about gender in my post. > p.s. In all fairness to Ron, he's never held back from speaking his > mind on this list which, in my case at least, is why I value him so > much as a member of the community. I don't have a problem with people speaking their minds; I also don't have a problem calling BS when I see it. And back to the original topic, while I personally don't even run ?DM and whatnot, I think it's rather inappropriate to mock people for wanting certain characteristics in their linux installation. The idea of creating a Task to bundle a bunch of prettifying packages makes sense to me, *except* that I'm sure not everyone would agree on what makes things pretty. Perhaps instead, it could be a single script that prompted the user for decisions about the characteristics of their system, kind of like Bastille does. -- monique Ask smart questions, get good answers: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
