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Re: Installation



On Thu, 20 Sep 2012 16:41:46 +0200, lee wrote:

> Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> writes:

>>> Why would it have to be taken over by a company?  That wouldn't remove
>>> the need for learning.
>>
>> Because companies have the necessary resources to provide the kind of
>> support a newbie requires (e.g., IBM, HP, RedHat, Canonical or SUSE are
>> good examples for this). No user-driven mailing list can help these
>> kind of newbies in the same way that a company does, if someone told
>> you so it wasn't being sincere.
> 
> The only way in which Suse has been helping me is by including
> documentation in form of a book with their distributions --- which after
> not very long didn't answer the questions I had anymore.  

(...)

> Companies may have resources they could use to provide support.  Simply
> having them doesn't mean that they do.

They do provide support as long as you pay for it, of course. Laziness 
has a price.

>>>> Because Windows OEM installations are always -regardless the version-
>>>> quick and take little time but we are not talking here about this,
>>>> you know...
>>> 
>>> No, they aren't.
>>
>> By your replies I can deduce that either:
>>
>> a) You have never installed a OEMized version of Windows or, b) You are
>> not very skilled user because these versions provide a wizard that only
>> asks you no more than 5 basic questions, or c) You're simply joking...
> 
> None of your deductions is correct 

(...)

Then kindly tell me why you seem to ignore a fact that everybody is aware 
of.

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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