Michael Martinell wrote: >On Fri, September 9, 2005 8:53 pm, Carl Fink wrote: > > >>Any information needed to make a choice should be PART OF THE PROGRAM (minus >>very rare cases). Why make the new user go searching? >>-- >> >> > >If you are so lazy as to not want to read through the getting started guide >then you don't have much of a future period. Most things in life that are >worth doing require study - driving a car, being a doctor, being a computer >tech, it doesn't really matter. > > The purpose of a machine is to reduce the workload on a human.
The more drudge work that the machine does, the less that the human has to do, and the better. I doubt that anyone expects a Debian install to be a brain-dead operation; I think several of us expect that the installation routine should take as much work off the human installer as is practical. Of course, I could be wrong. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
