Re: goddammit

[mockingbird@ihug.co.nz (Chris Bannister)]

On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 10:16:44PM -0800, Incoming wrote:
> I have been fighting with this damned Debian 3.1 - Sergeant Wolly or some such - and I can't even print.  I have also installed JRE, but I haven't found out how to connect it to Firefox.
> 
> I can't downlosd from my digital camera.
> 
> I can only play a few of the video formats out on the web.  There doesn't seem to be any one that will play them all, or, failing that, convert to a format that will play on what I have (Totem, RealPlayer which doesn't really work).
> Every time I go looking for solutions I wind up going in circles and drowning in a mass of half-baked how-to's and advice on how to run files that no longer exist or led from one useless document to another as I RTFM.  Well, boys and girls, so far any FM I have encountered is NFG or NWAPOCS (Not Worth A Pinch...).  I can't say that it's not entertaining, but I need a complete operating system and not some ill-fitting patches.
> 
> Before anyone decides to engage in infantile gibberish, otherwise known as rants or flames, don't waste my time.
> 
> What I really want to know is why this is so difficult to put together and how it can be done without me becoming a systems engineer.  Not that I'd mind, it's just that, currently, I just don't have the time.
> __________________________

Its free and updated by volunteers in *their* spare time. Its not always
perfect, I mean some of the documentation is very entertaining,
frustrating, etc. Sometimes it feels like you are banging your head
against a brick wall.

One course of action you could take is to pay someone to set it up for
you.

Another would be to ask helpful questions on this mailing list, see:
http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Another would be to try Ubuntu or the countless other distributions out
there. Although the documentation problems probably still exist. But you
may never need to read them. :-)

-- 
Chris.
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etch and not testing, otherwise you may end up with a broken system once
etch goes stable.