On Sat, 2016-04-30 at 10:11 -0400, Matthew Miller wrote: > It does seem like there might be a better term than "factory > settings".
We used to call that reformatting... If you want to avoid calling it that, I don't know what a better term will be. Reseting? Erasing. It's not just being pedantic, but computing requires accuracy *and* the avoidance of inaccuracy. You can't possibly restore some of my USB memory sticks to factory settings unless you restore the files that came on the drive. To nearly *everybody* restoring to factory settings means exactly a return to how it was when you got it, and that's what they expect. When software does not do what it says, and what people expect, that does cause problems. It also makes the authors look a complete pratt to make ludicrous claims about what their software does. -- tim@localhost ~]$ uname -rsvp Linux 3.19.8-100.fc20.i686 #1 SMP Tue May 12 17:42:35 UTC 2015 i686 All mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted, there is no point trying to privately email me, I will only read messages posted to the public lists. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/admin/lists/users@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
