On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:07:22 +0100 Mart van de Wege <mvdw...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jonathan Dowland <j...@debian.org> writes: > > > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 08:06:46AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 08:52:46PM -0400, Catherine Gramze wrote: > >> > Do you prefer that people move on to other distros after a base > >> > system only installation because the Debian installer let them > >> > inadvertently get there? > >> > >> If they're like you, yes. Good riddance. > > > > This thread is a great example of why I really despise debian-user > > sometimes. There's no reason to be so hostile, you simply disagree > > with each other. This list is too toxic a lot of the time. Please > > either post friendly and constructively or not at all. > > I disagree. Sometimes there is no disagreement, someone is just plain > wrong. Catherine has been given the use cases that disprove her > thesis, and has been contradicting herself. > > Continuing to be nice in some misguided attempt at false balance > *does* *not* *help*. If someone is wrong, they should be told; if > they insist on not wanting to be educated, at a certain point you > must simply wash your hands of them. It's not nice, but it *is* > constructive. > > "Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore" > - Cicero But it can be done politely, and with dignity, and sometimes is. 'Good riddance' is not, by any possible standard, polite. -- Joe