Lisi put forth on 4/11/2010 1:56 AM: > On Saturday 10 April 2010 22:12:04 Dotan Cohen wrote: >> On 10 April 2010 00:42, Stan Hoeppner <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Stephen Powell put forth on 4/8/2010 9:38 PM: >>>> For some reason, this well-known proverb is going through my head: >>>> >>>> Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. >>>> Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. >>>> >>>> I'd rather learn to fish. >>> >>> This is exactly the reason I chose Debian 10 years ago when I was looking >>> for my first Linux distro. > [snip] >>> I only use Linux for non-GUI servers. I don't use desktop Linux. All my >>> admin'ing requires knuckle busting. ;) And I like it that way. >> >> But you do understand that desktop users _don't_ want to learn about >> their OS, correct? > > Recently I was trying to show my 15 year old granddaughter, who runs Open > SuSU > 11 on her laptop, how to do some small admin job. She said that she didn't > want to know. When I queried this, she said: > > "When I am at school, the IT department does it for me. When I am at home > here, you do it for me. When I am in Japan, Daddy does it for me. Why do I > need to know how to do it?"
That sound like a perfect "teachable moment". How did you answer your granddaughter? -- Stan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
