Re: Installation
On 09/17/2012 12:01 PM, Camaleón wrote:
On Mon, 17 Sep 2012 11:21:06 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
I'm probably going to regret this...
<sarcasm>
And I wonder why >:-)
</sarcasm>
Because I'm subject to fits of unreasoning paranoia about the possibility that I
might get a flame, however mild, in response - and I can spend hours or days in
a semi-depressive state, afraid to even open any responses I receive.
I wasn't always like that, I know roughly what changed it, and I don't like the
change - but I don't know how to change back.
Or in other words: because the people who respond may not be reasonable, and I'm
no longer as thick-skinned in an argument as I used to be.
On 09/17/2012 09:31 AM, Camaleón wrote:
Then you better stop here and solve this step before going any further
How?
If you can solve a simple problem like that I wonder what would you do when
your computer can't start at all...
For many people, the answer is "panic".
Does that mean they shouldn't get to have one in the first place?
But my point is that you shouldn't *have* to solve that problem as a
prerequisite for performing an initial install. If you know what you're doing,
you already don't have to, more or less; the argument I think I see being made
is that if you don't yet know what you're doing, you still shouldn't have to.
Consider the case of someone who used to run Windows, whose install got trashed
by malware, and who decided to throw it all over and install this Linux thing
he'd already burned an install disc for. Should they have to buy a new computer
(with an OS already installed) in order to be able to install Debian on their
existing hardware?
Or consider the somewhat extreme case of someone whose existing
already-installed systems all fried in a lightning strike, or were destroyed in
a fire, et cetera. Should they have to buy an already-installed system before
they try to install a new OS on their spare hardware?
Or consider the case of someone who literally has no Internet connection, and
who got the (non-netinst) install CD by mail order. Even if they already have an
existing, installed, working computer, it won't do them any good for finding
help. Should they be able to install?
There are more-extreme possible scenarios, but they get increasingly less likely.
--
The Wanderer
Warning: Simply because I argue an issue does not mean I agree with any
side of it.
Every time you let somebody set a limit they start moving it.
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