On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 2/5/2009 7:01 AM, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > 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. > > "They should read the manual" is *not* a valid design goal for a system. > At best, it's a justification or rationalization when outside > constraints force a design to be non-intuitive. > > Given the choice between two otherwise equally functional systems (of > any sort -- electronic, mechanical, digital, etc); if one requires me to > spend extensive time reading an instruction manual to use and the other > is designed to be easy to use out of the box -- the "idiot" is the > person wasting their time reading instead of being productive.
and not one single complex system is 'idiotproof'. > To use > your own example, I have no problem figuring out how to start my car, > turn on the A/C, tune my radio, and drive to work without reading the > automobile manual. but before you were even allowed to drive a car you had to take lessons and pass a test. > > If Gentoo's installer *has* to be difficult because it's the only way to > supply additional benefits or features, that's a perfectly reasonable > argument. If Gentoo's installer is *stuck* being difficult because > there is a lack of resources interested in making it better, that's an > upsetting, but equally reasonable argument. > > If Gentoo's installer is difficult *on purpose* just to make Gentoo hard > to use, that's ridiculous. gentoo's installer is EASY if you just read the docs.
