[NTLUG:Discuss] Giving Up On FEDORA

[Dennis Myhand]

Thomas Cameron wrote:
> On 01/04/2010 06:33 AM, Allen Meyers wrote:
>> No matter how many bells and whistles development puts into an OS it
>> is no better then the support offered by the forum. I went into Fedora
>> with high expectations and dropped it because of its non responsive
>> attitude to the newbie.
> 
> Could it be that no one answered because you're asking impossible
> questions?  "Hi, I've totally buggared my system because I did it
> totally wrong, can someone help me?"  That's not going to get any
> meaningful answers, sorry.  Really, the only answer is to go read the
> docs and do it the right way.
> 
> Also, use the mailing list, not the forum.  There are a lot more
> professionals on the list:
> 
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
> 
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I want to step in here on this.  I have been on a number of mailing 
lists, and in any number of forums, and I have seen people ask these 
questions, but it is extremely rare.  What I have seen (More often than 
not) is, when a question is asked by someone who is either new to Linux, 
or not a developer/programmer, they get a response like, "Well, do you 
actually want to learn about your system, or do you just want to take 
the easy way out to solve your problem?"  That kind of smug, 
self-righteous, weaselly evasiveness really pisses me off.  Normally, 
because I am not a programmer/developer, I just want my system to do 
what I need it to do.  And yes, I have totally hosed my system, and I 
have also asked what I needed to do to fix it, and I think I have done 
so on this list.  And I got a viable, effective answer.  And I cannot 
tell you how rare that is.  I will not participate in the Debian mailing 
lists anymore.  I have learned my lesson long ago.  There are other 
lists I will not be found on for similar reasons, as well as forums 
which shall forever remain not listed in my bookmarks and also for 
similar reasons.  So please, when someone says they are avoiding some 
distro because of the difficulty of doing something, don't just think 
they have asked the questions wrongly and avoid or abandon them.  They 
may be stating the problems they encountered in the best way they know 
how.  It isn't always an id10t problem.  Sometimes it really is a crappy 
program.  Peace, Dennis at work in Edna

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Dennis Myhand
Edna High School
Edna ISD