From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RYJv9-0006BL-Sk for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:00:36 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4ADF021C179; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 16:00:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4129B21C0B0 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 15:58:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CCBEC1B4021 for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 15:58:49 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.354 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.354 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.147, BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.001, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, NML_ADSP_CUSTOM_MED=0.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-1.201, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=ham Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id SS-Ex30iGXyn for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 15:58:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A6221B400F for ; Wed, 7 Dec 2011 15:58:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RYJtE-0007fY-7V for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:58:36 +0100 Received: from dsl.comtrol.com ([64.122.56.22]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:58:35 +0100 Received: from grant.b.edwards by dsl.comtrol.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 07 Dec 2011 16:58:35 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: can one tell me: gentoo vs opensuse Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 15:58:23 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <20111205201409.GA937@gaurahari.merseine.nu> <201112052332.24643.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> <20111206111531.5d5843bd@hactar.digimed.co.uk> <20111206220439.GA15412@badass.gateway.2wire.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: dsl.comtrol.com User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) X-Archives-Salt: bd6353ed-03ee-44be-b168-55987d412919 X-Archives-Hash: 4645b82f4815a1188dc7579c202fff6e On 2011-12-07, Stroller wrote: > > On 6 December 2011, at 23:25, Grant Edwards wrote: >> ... >> The Ubuntu documentation seems to be mainly user-forum threads full of >> wrong answers posted by people who didn't understand the question. > > I tried Ubuntu, hated this *so* much. > > I'm sure all the respondents were just trying to be helpful, but they > made Ubuntu look like the distro of idiots. Ubuntu is intended to be usable by people ignorant of how Linux/Unix works. As such, it does tend to get used by people who are ignorant of how Linux/Unix works. Asking such a group for technical help is an express-train to frustration -- but there doesn't really seem to be anywhere you can ask questions of Ubuntu users who _do_ understand things. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! All this time I've at been VIEWING a RUSSIAN gmail.com MIDGET SODOMIZE a HOUSECAT!