Re: installer defaults for desktops (was Re: Suggested edit)
On Thu, 23 Mar 2017 11:07:22 +0100
Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jonathan Dowland <jmtd@debian.org> writes:
>
> > On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 08:06:46AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >> On Tue, Mar 21, 2017 at 08:52:46PM -0400, Catherine Gramze wrote:
> >> > Do you prefer that people move on to other distros after a base
> >> > system only installation because the Debian installer let them
> >> > inadvertently get there?
> >>
> >> If they're like you, yes. Good riddance.
> >
> > This thread is a great example of why I really despise debian-user
> > sometimes. There's no reason to be so hostile, you simply disagree
> > with each other. This list is too toxic a lot of the time. Please
> > either post friendly and constructively or not at all.
>
> I disagree. Sometimes there is no disagreement, someone is just plain
> wrong. Catherine has been given the use cases that disprove her
> thesis, and has been contradicting herself.
>
> Continuing to be nice in some misguided attempt at false balance
> *does* *not* *help*. If someone is wrong, they should be told; if
> they insist on not wanting to be educated, at a certain point you
> must simply wash your hands of them. It's not nice, but it *is*
> constructive.
>
> "Cuiusvis hominis est errare, nullius nisi insipientis in errore"
> - Cicero
But it can be done politely, and with dignity, and sometimes is. 'Good
riddance' is not, by any possible standard, polite.
--
Joe
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