Proposal: Split Fedora into sub-distributions

[Horst H. von Brand]

Lyos Gemini Norezel <lyos.gemininorezel at gmail.com> wrote:
> Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> > * nodata [07/09/2008 18:29] :
> >
> >> Am Sonntag, den 07.09.2008, 07:09 -0400 schrieb Lyos Gemini Norezel:
> >>     Not helpful.
> >>
> >
> > Agreed.
> >
> > Please stop calling people who want things to work out of the box idiots.
> > They're not.
> >
> > Emmanuel

> Look... regardless of your opinion... the majority of 'users' are
> idiots. Whether willfully ignorant or just plain stupid... these
> people comprise nearly 90% of the human race.

No... it is just that nobody is able to deal "intelligently" with all
situations, they just don't have the resources. You /have/ to behave like
a complete dud in 90+% of things to concentrate on those few percent that
_really_ interest you/where you are _really_ good (and thus are able to
shine).

> This just makes those of us who do care enough to use linux (or code
> for linux), somewhat special (or insane)... no?

No, those who code for/tinker with Linux are just Linux geeks (a few
percent of all Linux users, by the above).
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