On Monday 12 October 2009 11:57, sevol wrote: > But 64studio, & other Debian-based install discs I tried, failed to > see the system drive to install to - Western Digital Caviar SE16 > WD6400AAKS 640GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA, btw - so, I gave up. I > think this is my 1st post to this list, maybe not. Hey, I'm lazy. I > never even took the effort to unsubscribe. > > The preceding stuff is only to indicate that I seem the opposite of > Ralf. As a list member, who would you prefer on the list, me or Ralf? > Who would the developers prefer if their goal is to improve the > distro? This isn't pointed at anyone, but I've never quite understood > the backlash to Ralf's posts. Or I do & the backlash resembles > personality clashes, different methods of working & posting, & > variance in what entails a legitimate problem. > > Ralf is one reason I'm still subscribe to this list. To someone with > more Linux experience (or less), perhaps Ralf's psots seem like > irrelevant or harmful chatter. For me, many of his descriptions of > tweaks, experimentation, & attempts to work through problems are > valuable fodder for thinking about why I might want to customize > something, what issues I might encounter, ways of working toward a > solution, or asking myself would it be worth the bother, etc. I tend > to skim his posts because I'm sometimes overwhelmed by the details, > limited by time, & not being on a Debian-based system, often it's more > the general audio/Linux incite I read for anyway.
I think, sadly, you've hit the nail on the head here. You had a valid problem - not being able to install the distro. This is a basic issue - without installs, you can't have users - so I have no doubt people would have wanted to work through this with you. I just wonder how many new users don't post because their interpretation of the "level" of posts is skewed by Ralf's spiels (I'm not saying this applies to you). "Gee - look at all the detail - this guy must be a wizz with Linux. I'm not at that level - I'd better not post, or they'll think I'm a moron." The irony is that, even though you are "sometimes overwhelmed by the details", the vast majority of this stuff is irrelevant to issues that most new users will face. Sure, you can look at Ralf's stuff and think, "Good old Ralf, there he is, chuntering along as usual - nice to think there are people like that around, lifting up stones." But my view is that this same stuff is antithetical to turning lurkers into users, and that is not good for the distro. -- Pob hwyl / Best wishes Kevin Donnelly www.cymraeg.org.uk - Welsh-English autotranslator www.eurfa.org.uk - Geiriadur rhydd i'r Gymraeg _______________________________________________ 64studio-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.64studio.com/mailman/listinfo/64studio-users
