fedup: it's full of stars

[Tim]

On Fri, 2013-01-18 at 02:57 -0800, Wolfgang S. Rupprecht wrote:
> I hate them too, but we probably aren't the intended audience.

Which raises the question of what the hell is the thought process behind
that?  Are they creating a distro to suit the people actually using it,
or for people who aren't using it?

> I assume that there is a human-factors study that indicates that
> non-technical users don't like to be reminded of how complicated
> things really are under the hood.  At least that is why I thought such
> cover-up screens exist.

Where you sit there staring at the computer wondering what it's doing,
will it actually finish if I just wait a bit longer, or should hit reset
and see if a reboot actually helps.

-- 
[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

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