On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, Christopher Conroy wrote:
Although if we distribute livecds, such as knoppix, these headaches are
avoided.
Lessened, maybe; avoided, no. People are still not going to know what the
right tool is for a particular job. They're not going to know where to get
help (try asking a Windows user what a man page or a miling list is; I
dare you :-). They're not going to know how to troubleshoot marginal
harware, or marginal software.
Just as an example - I don't have enough fingers to count[1] the number of
times I've had to explain virtual consoles to experienced programmers -
people that know how to write init scripts in sh, but have never heard of
the idea that there's more than one tty on the system console.
I wish I could, but I'm not going to volunteer my time helping noobs.
There's just no way I can do that, considering how much of a backlog I'm
under already[2].
Alexey
[1] Using your fingers as bits is cheating. Counting on fingers is in base 1.
[2] I've got a coding project I finished over a year ago that's still
waiting for me to package and release it. <sigh>
