On Tue, 18 Sep 2012 11:54:07 -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > On 09/18/2012 11:41 AM, Camaleón wrote:
(...) >>> Does that mean they shouldn't get to have one in the first place? > >> No, it means that panic can be treated with reading. Reading (and the >> ensuing understanding on how this stuff works) is a "must" for every >> computer user. There are no work-arounds, bypasses or magic hints to >> avoid this step. > > True, although there *is* a potential limit on just how *much* > "understanding on how this stuff works" is, or should be, necessary. Okay, I agree the user does not need to hold a MS in Computer Science as a previous requirement for installing an OS and managing a computer. > To look at things from a possibly different perspective: what are the > minimum advance-reading and resulting-understanding requirements, for > install and (separately) for basic system usage, for e.g. Windows? For installing Windows "from scratch" I'd say the requirements are pretty the same: the user will need to know about BIOS booting preferences, hard disk partitioning strategies and filesystem formats, network settings and the basic rules for choosing a username and password. And this is the bare minimum they'll need to know. > Do we want to try to at least meet that same minimum threshold, or is > being harder-to-use than Windows an acceptable thing? As I've been saying all the time, I think the difference here is not marked by the OS but the user attitude: when you compare both installation processes in one to one, you realize that Windows is as easier/harder than Linux. Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/k3a6hf$thl$1...@ger.gmane.org
