Adding /sbin and /usr/sbin to everyone's path in F10
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Apr 24 15:41:56 UTC 2008
max bianco wrote:
>>
>> If you think people can't learn to use the command line you should just
>> walk away from unix-like systems now.
>>
> I deal with "average users" on a daily basis, most of them aren't
> interested in learning anything, they will memorize things though and
> that is more dangerous by far, if they wanted to learn the command
> line there are ample resources for the motivated among us to find and
> do just that but genuine desire to tinker with machines is a geek
> trait that not all of us possess. Some people program, some administer
> systems, some are doctors, some lawyers, etc.... Now do you want to
> explain to a user that the assumption was made that they knew
> something when there was no basis for that assumption in the first
> place.
How does any of that justify making things harder and more confusing,
which appears to be your intent?
> I love to teach and learn. I am happy to hose my system and rebuild
> it. I get genuine satisfaction out of doing it. How many users feel
> that way? How many times have I shown a user how to do something but
> they still don't get it? because they are stupid or incapable? NO!
> because they lack the geek trait or more to the point they are law
> geeks, not computer geeks.
Or because there where several illogical steps involved because of bad
defaults that made it too confusing.
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Les Mikesell
lesmikesell at gmail.com
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