Hi guys, it seems to be a long dispute, and I have read arguments like these in the last 10 years... I do not take up the topic normally, but I have read new things. So I feel I have to write my points.
1. An average user should not install any OS. Therefore it is not relevant how complex is to install an OS. I guess, most of the performance and security issues of M$ system arise from this aspect. There is no need and no possibilty to fine-tune it. OTOH experimenting should be wellcome..... 2. If a user is willing to take to pains to install an OS, she or he deserves to have all information to set up a system properly required. Out-of-the-box installers are no up to this requirement most of the time, if these are not designed to give users maximum insight and flexibilty. I have never seen M$ to be this quality. 3. The role of M$ is quite unique: a large number of people know the problems with it, even in the managing boards. But they know the actual prices only, do not have any estimation how much money the loose on the quality problems, the need of frequent hardware updates, etc. And they stick to the notion of "support" they pay for even knowing it does not solve the problems properly in time... :-( 2012/9/29 Chris Bannister <cbannis...@slingshot.co.nz>: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 03:06:05AM -0400, Neal Murphy wrote: >> System installation should be as automated as is possible. In fact, the >> installer should ask as few questions as possible. > > The trouble is there are many different desirable setups depending on > what you want to use it for. I wouldn't like an installer which asked a > whole lot of English questions about what I wanted to use it for, > especially when the person writing the questions has no skills in > technical writing, and then went on to do a whole lot of operations > which in the end, was not what I meant. If I don't want RAID then I > don't want RAID, no ifs buts or but you need it. > > -- > "If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people > who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the > oppressing." --- Malcolm X > > > -- > 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/20120929160151.GC3879@tal > -- Linux is like a wigwam: no Gates, no Windows and an Apache inside. -- 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/CAL=1hhwLp=OGvuPrJG1=1=1ntmt_em7om-bmrwkyji_mu55...@mail.gmail.com
