On Saturday 04 April 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Volker Armin Hemmann wrote: > > [...] > > maybe, but at the high time of the installer the forum was full with > > clueless (and it still is). Following the handbook is not hard. > > If you don't have a second PC, it's not easy either.
I wrote down the 27 steps on a single sheet of a5 paper and followed them when I installed gentoo 1.0. Later I just saved the handbook on the usb stick I was using ... > And besides, what > have the clueless done to you? :D Just let them be. well, I try to be a good member of the community - and that means helping in the forum. And it sucks to deal with the complete clueless. Even worse are people who are clueless and become aggressive when pointed to the documentation. When I started with Linux 'RTFM' was seen as an appropriate answer - but today you could hurt someones precious feelings - and not hurting an imbecile is very, very hard and taxing.

