[OT Humor] "Obviously designed by morons"

Michael Hennebry hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.nodak.edu
Mon Mar 21 15:34:44 UTC 2011


On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, James McKenzie wrote:

> I don't think that is the intent.  I don't think this is the intent of
> the Gnome3 developers either.  However, as Linux moves from a niche to
> prominenance we are going to pick up the ID10Ts that will click on a
> button just to see what happens and then cry when their Gnome
> installation is broken and cannot follow obviously simple
> instructions.  Then they go out and trash Linux.  Never mind they
> brought this upon themselves, Linux sucks and that is their mantra.
> Yes, those of us that know better will have to suffer.

That is a reason for carefully choosing defaults.
It might even be a reason for making the
configuration tools command line-only.
Perhaps a command line tool for enabling configuration:
sudo IHerebySwear 'I am not now and have never been a Windows user.'

-- 
Michael   hennebry at web.cs.ndsu.NoDak.edu
"Pessimist: The glass is half empty.
Optimist:   The glass is half full.
Engineer:   The glass is twice as big as it needs to be."


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