On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 11:27:24AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Document it all you want. But don't expect Joe Toothbrush to read it > all. If one _wants_ go through pages upon pages of docs to create > something new, that's great and the more the merrier. But if one > _must_ go through the docs to use the product, then by virtue or > Occam's razor the OS with the least documentation is the easiest to > use.
I remember when I got OS/2. It came with lots of books on the OS, to which I added a full set of RedBooks, and I had to learn REXX, with its own set of books and RedBooks. I spent a week floating out in a canoe (while the rest of the family had a reunion) reading. That was for my 386, back in the days when computers cost about what a car did, and ram went for $1,000 / MB. I forget how much AutoCad cost. I'm one to read the 1000 page book cover-to-cover. That way, I'll rememeber a significant amount and know exactly where to look when I need something I don't remember. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org