Andrew M.A. Cater put forth on 4/11/2010 6:54 PM: > On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 08:58:59AM -0400, Rob Owens wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 07:56:10AM +0100, Lisi wrote: >>> On Saturday 10 April 2010 22:12:04 Dotan Cohen wrote: >>>> On 10 April 2010 00:42, Stan Hoeppner <s...@hardwarefreak.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> But you do understand that desktop users _don't_ want to learn about >>>> their OS, correct?
This is a mis-quote above. Just making clear that the above statement was not made by me, but by Dotan Cohen: Dotan Cohen put forth on 4/10/2010 4:12 PM: > 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. I told a friend I wanted a server distro that >> wasn't going to spoon feed me, but make me learn something about Linux. >> >> Casey, a seasoned Debian sysadmin, recommended I download the Debian net >> install floppies and do my first install from the mirrors, only a compact >> base install, and to install everything else I needed by hand with apt. >> That was Potato with a 2.2 kernel. >> >> 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? They want the computer to be as transparent as > possible in their workflow. -- Stan -- 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/4bc288f2.1030...@hardwarefreak.com
