Am 01.02.2013 15:41, schrieb Bill Oliver:
Now we have all these shiny distros with bells, whistles, flashing lights, and automatic configuration tools that do all this stuff for us in an entertaining manner. We have reorganized things to make it easy for the configuration tools in a way that makes manual configuration harder and harder.
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And it will approach 1 for *any* such distro. Changing distros doesn't help this problem, unless you go to one of the minimal distros that are still oriented towards simplified manual configuration (if there is such a one nowadays). My personal philosophy is that I try to stick with one distro and learn how to manually modify things to bypass the configuration tools as much as possible -- though some such tools, such as NetworkManager seem to do their best to fight against those efforts.
+1