Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 09:10:25 -0300 From: Pablo Baena <greyheart@fnmail.com> To: David Scheidt <dscheidt@enteract.com> Cc: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cant these people spell? Message-ID: <19991028091024.A318@time.bomb.argh> In-Reply-To: <Pine.NEB.3.96.991027224132.62012E-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> References: <XFMail.991028101345.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> <Pine.NEB.3.96.991027224132.62012E-100000@shell-2.enteract.com>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
Hello! On Wed, Oct 27, 1999 at 11:12:06PM -0500, David Scheidt wrote: > I utterly disagree. I saw the -questions article that started this thread, > and thought that the author was clearly a semi-literate luser. He > complained that _The Complete FreeBSD_ was unreadable! I've lent my copy to > several people, including one I wouldn't leave alone in a room with a > Macintosh. Not one of them had any problems following the manual. One of > them did have problems getting FreeBSD installed because one of his PCI > slots didn't work, but I can hardly blame him for that. I might think he didn't bother to read the book at all. These people just don't have patience, and are used to Windoze. In Windoze, you can go and have a program running without any effort, just looking at the help files once a while, and that's all. Then you get used to read the manuals only when you have troubles. Unix isn't like that at all. You got to read the manual _before_ you try anything else, but it seems people just don't get it. A year and a half ago I found a copy of Slackware that a friend of mine couldn't install for a year or so. I took it, readed the README, and got it installed in one afternoon, without knowing a very thing of Unix. I have another friend, who seems just unable to read! What I do with these people? I just go: "READ THE MANUALS". I can't help them (I don't want to), because if I did it, why can't they? Am I special, I don't think so. I just got used to reading, and that's what they must do. That's why I hate those installation festivals that linuxers make, the people who actually go there to make other people install the software for them, don't need Unix! They will wipe out the entire disk just after getting home, and then we are wasting our efforts on them! No, not anymore. They don't deserve any help. If they're so in love with Windoze, ok, let them keep it, we don't need them after all! Do we? I'm not the kind of guy that goes out kicking Windoze boxes, when I see one, I just think: "Hey, I have a much more powerful box at home waiting for me, let this s**t burn the hard disk and go away". Pablo. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?19991028091024.A318>