Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

[Saphirus Sage]

Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
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>> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
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>>> On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:.
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>>>>> I can't think of a single reason why the installer should operate in a
>>>>> different manner to the way the thing will be used.
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>>>> Because installation is boring.  The easier it is, the better.
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>>> wrong. The installation needs a certain difficulty to keep idiots away.
>>> Nobody needs idiots (except maybe ubuntu).
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>> That is insulting.  My mother uses Ubuntu.  Thanks for calling her an
>> idiot.
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> no, I didn't call her 'idiot'. I am just stating that ubuntu tries to cater 
> for idiots.
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>> Obviously if someone wants to use his computer in order to get
>> something done without doing a Ph.D on Portage and /etc first, then that
>> person is an idiot.
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> no. He is an idiot if he does not read the docs. Simple. Like people who 
> don't 
> read the manual to their car or vcr and then complaining if something does 
> not 
> work. Idiots.
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And this is why RTFM is a good and common acronym.