Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Gentoo's advantage: 'optimized for your system' -- huh?

[Volker Armin Hemmann <volkerarmin@googlemail.com>]

On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Saphirus Sage wrote:
> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> >> Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> >>> On Donnerstag 05 Februar 2009, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:.
> >>>
> >>>>> I can't think of a single reason why the installer should operate in
> >>>>> a different manner to the way the thing will be used.
> >>>>
> >>>> Because installation is boring.  The easier it is, the better.
> >>>
> >>> wrong. The installation needs a certain difficulty to keep idiots away.
> >>> Nobody needs idiots (except maybe ubuntu).
> >>
> >> That is insulting.  My mother uses Ubuntu.  Thanks for calling her an
> >> idiot.
> >
> > no, I didn't call her 'idiot'. I am just stating that ubuntu tries to
> > cater for idiots.
> >
> >> Obviously if someone wants to use his computer in order to get
> >> something done without doing a Ph.D on Portage and /etc first, then that
> >> person is an idiot.
> >
> > no. He is an idiot if he does not read the docs. Simple. Like people who
> > don't read the manual to their car or vcr and then complaining if
> > something does not work. Idiots.
>
> And this is why RTFM is a good and common acronym.

exactly. If someone read the docs and still has a question - that is ok. 
Googled and did not find what he looked for. Happens all the time. Nothing 
wrong with asking a question. Nobody expects somebody to understand everything 
or find every answer in the manuals. But somebody who didn't even try to find 
the answer for himself - that person does not deserve help. Only pity that he 
is such an idiot.