On Saturday 10 April 2010 22:12:04 Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 10 April 2010 00:42, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: > > Stephen Powell put forth on 4/8/2010 9:38 PM: > >> For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head: > >> > >> Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. > >> Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. > >> > >> I'd rather learn to fish. > > > > This is exactly the reason I chose Debian 10 years ago when I was looking > > for my first Linux distro. [snip] > > I only use Linux for non-GUI servers. I don't use desktop Linux. All my > > admin'ing requires knuckle busting. ;) And I like it that way. > > But you do understand that desktop users _don't_ want to learn about > their OS, correct?
Recently I was trying to show my 15 year old granddaughter, who runs Open SuSU 11 on her laptop, how to do some small admin job. She said that she didn't want to know. When I queried this, she said: "When I am at school, the IT department does it for me. When I am at home here, you do it for me. When I am in Japan, Daddy does it for me. Why do I need to know how to do it?" Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/201004110756.10207.lisi.re...@gmail.com