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Re: How can the OS autodetect that a user is a newbie and offer help?



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On 10/17/06 19:35, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 08:27:46PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 17, 2006 at 07:56:00PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 08:36:42AM +1000, Andrew Vaughan wrote:
[snip]
> This should be fixed for etch, afaik. If you just choose the defaults,
> you'll end up with a gnome desktop installation and X up and running by
> default.

A deep well of curmudgeonly geekiness is welling up within me, about
to burst forth with an overwhelming NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!

We who used MS-DOS in 1985 were not appreciably smarter than people
are now, yet we figured out DIR & COPY & DEL & CD.  A HELP command
and a set of DOS-friendly aliases (and/or scripts) would/should be
adequate.

After all, this isn't OpenVMS...

- --
Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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