[PLUG] Screwed

[Carla Schroder]

On Sunday 18 June 2006 9:14 pm, John Jason Jordan wrote:
> Tip to programmers: Give the user an effin' CLUE. Some of us were not
> born knowing how to run Linux from the command line.

If you're going to be your own sysadmin, you better acquire the knowledge to 
do it right. I agree that a lot of program output and error messages could be 
more helpful and friendlier. On the other hand, this is not some sort of wild 
new undocumented cutting-edge task- it is very well-documented. Wise persons 
study first. If reading howtos is too tedious, practice on a nothing-to-lose 
system, not your main PC. 

An operating system upgrade is not trivial. Only in the Linux world is this a 
routine task requiring just a little bit of knowledge to perform 
successfully. Pretty amazing piece of engineering, it is. Don't blame the 
devs for your lack of preparation.

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