[NTLUG:Discuss] Giving Up On FEDORA

[Dennis Myhand]

Greg Edwards wrote:
> Leroy Tennison wrote:
> 
> The point that I'm trying to make is that we need to accept the fact 
> that the majority of general users don't want to learn the technology. 
> They just want to use it.

It isn't that they just want to use it.  Many of them are FORCED to use 
it.  I work at a small school district.  EVERYTHING is done on computer. 
  Grades, Attendance, Even submitting a discipline request on a student 
is done through an application in the Gradebook program.  And yet we 
have teachers, long in their field and highly competent in their subject 
matter, who are not programmers, will not be programmers, do not care 
about how the technology works, but do need it to work.  And when I am 
trying to get five problems solved outside my classroom for teachers and 
their computers, I have to be frank here.  I do not give a S**T how the 
technology works, nor do I care about learning about my system.  I need 
an answer other than RTFM.  Greg, I think you have reached an 
understanding on this similar to my own.  I need it to work, if not for 
me, for someone less technically inclined than myself, and I need it 
quick.  And this is one of the reasons why I left RPM based distros a 
long time back.  I don't seem to care for Ubuntu.  But I loves my Deb!


> When we talk to people in that category we 
> need to stop being belligerent and simply help them out at the level of 
> their interest.  For those people, the RH offerings of today are 
> probably not the best direction to go.
> 

The belligerence of some of the replies has always struck me as weird 
and offensive.  To quote Rodney King, "Can't we all just get along?"  I 
guess the answer is still, "NO!!!!!!"   Peace, Dennis

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Dennis Myhand
Edna High School
Edna ISD