Re: [OT] Ubuntu vs Debian forums (was recompiling the kernel with a different version name)
On Sunday 11 April 2010 09:02:49 you wrote:
> >> 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 is the kind of user who can learn!
Of course! That is why I was trying to show her.
> If the small admin job had
> been "diagnose kernel crashes" and her answer would have been "I am a
> brain surgeon, not a computer scientist. I fix the brain, you fix the
> computer. Today is the one day off that I have to spend with my family
> and I don't want to spend it with the computer instead." then her
> reluctance would have been valid.
I was, I thought, supporting your view that most/many people simply don't
_want_ to know. Why does their reluctance have to be "valid"?
Are you saying that only those who want to learn to administer it should be
allowed to use Linux?
Lisi
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