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Re: A dummy-plus user base: MSFT was lucky

Si tu peut répondre a celui ou celle qui a écrit le message si bas...
de ma part:

Hey, you just need to search a bit...
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Gilles Pelletier wrote:

> Bon! Mes quatres messages n'ont toujours pas paru sur le serveur de
> Vidéotron. Je change donc légèrement le titre en espérant qu'ils ne
> s'inscriront pas dans le fil précédent et qu'ils finiront par sortir
> de L-Q.
>
> Désolé s'il y en a qui ont reçu des doubles ou des triples.
>
> GP
>
> ----------
>
> >i cannot imagine somebody only wanting to use the linux o/s and not having
> >any insite in the o/s to maintain it etc unless they have a system
> >administrator on hand (say a son, daughter, relative who knows linux).
>
> Right! And this kind of support is needed even with Windows. But MSFT
> was lucky: for years DOS was taught in schools and there a user base
> that's more knowledgeable than the average dummy.
>
> I went through this myself, but I'm getting at a certain age and when
> I saw what a mess Linux documentation is for a non-experienced user, I
> decided this kind of trial and error-ing wasn't for me. Since I'm a
> pretty good writer (in french) though, I said I was ready to write a
> step by step hands-on tutorial on installation. All I asked was an
> installation of Debian "by-the-files", meaning without using silly
> interfaces. (Hey what's so hard to understand about fdisk? Who needs
> an interface that often fucks everything up?)
>
> But geeks are too busy at trial and error-ing and have never
> established a way to learn. I proposed hundreds of hours of my time
> against a mere installation of Debian and was turned down.
>
> IBM won't change this: the viability of any OS is built from the
> desktop up, not from the server down. Linux is going astray just like
> OS2 did. (I believe I said that : )
>
> GP
> --
> La Masse Critique
> Les «non-lethal weapons»: de la science-fiction?
> http://pages.infinit.net/mcrit/meilleur.html
> Rencontrez Néfertiti, Einstein, Tocqueville, etc.

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