I want to express my appreciation for the people of the LFS
support echo, and especially for the support team. The quality
of folk, and the quality of support, are, in my experience,
unsurpassed.
I have, since about 2005 or so, used and admin'd a few "free"
distro's, the names of which would likely be recognized by
everyone here. The constant bickering, posturing, pouting,
flaming, and general disagreeableness manifest on the support
lists for them eventually drove me away for my own sanity's
sake, at the expense of not getting support and having to
make my own way in some cases.
Also, I found the "That's the way we do things here; like it
or lump it!" attitude from the support teams to be annoying,
to say the least. There was only cursory acceptance of the right
of the user to determine for himself what got installed and
configured on his machine.
I was told by one member of a certain support group that I
didn't _deserve_ to use their distro, because I didn't measure
up to their standards for a user, which seemingly included
having a certain world view, and didn't want to get involved
in changing society by means of promulgating an OS. I consider
an OS a way to manage my hardware, and load and execute applications,
not a means of social change, however much it may be needed.
I don't see that at LFS.
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