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[Ralf Corsepius]

On Tue, 2008-10-28 at 16:06 -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
> > Casey Dahlin wrote:
> >> >>>    
> >>> True, but it's one brick in a lengthy series of stupid and silly
> >>> decisions, which have been gradually running down Fedora into this
> >>> single-user windows clone it has evolved into.
> >>>
> >>>   
> >> Are you serious? Really? You must have a very tenuous grasp of OS 
> >> internals.
> >
> > No, every change requires extensive documentation and retraining or 
> > you will have confused and disgruntled users.
> >
> >> Who does this affect?
> >> 1) People using the console a lot who also run X (remember, runlevel 
> >> 3 hasn't changed). Desktop users don't use consoles, server users 
> >> don't use X (I hope). Only a few species of geek remain.
> >
> > This dichotomy exists only in your imagination.  Desktop users 
> > sometimes interact with servers, server users nearly always interact 
> > with desktops.

I'd go one step further ...

> The users are the same. The computers, however, are different.

In many cases, the user is the same, the computer is the same, but the
situations and roles of both machine and user vary.

Never attached your "netbook/laptop" to your "home desktop with the big
screen and used your "netbook/laptop" as file server?

Ralf