[Mageia-discuss] Thoughts on an install

Wed Jun 8 14:04:17 CEST 2011

2011/6/8 Renaud (Ron) Olgiati <renaud at olgiati-in-paraguay.org>:
+> On Wednesday 08 Jun 2011 04:21 my mailbox was graced by a message from
+> Wolfgang Bornath who wrote:
+>
+>> >> Maybe we should think less of what the prog owners do, and more on
+>> >> whether or not the users want/need the prog ?
+>
+>> > +1
+>
+>> Good, tell that to the owners.
+>> Sometimes I think that some users are like little kids. They see it,
+>> they want it, and they don't care about anything else.
+>> What do you say to a kid asking for that yellow bike which belongs to
+>> another kid?
+>
+> For many years now, when people asked my advice on which OS to use, my reply
+> was "what software do you need to use, and what OS does it run under ?"; then
+> told them to use that OS, whatever it was (Yes, even MS Windows  ;-3) and I do
+> the same for my personal use: if a distro does not run the prog I need, that I
+> am used to, etc. I will not use that distro.
+
+Right, same as I do. I never had a problem running Windows for a
+special app which was not available in Linux. And I never had a
+problem with using a Gnome app in a KDE environment if the Gnome app
+better suited my needs.
+
+> I do not see the point of learning the complexities and vagaries of a new
+> drafting prog when the one I know is available on another distro that runs
+> without problem (for now), just for the sake of "being a Mageia user".
+
+Yes, quite right, same as I do. We totally agree on this.
+
+Now, how is this related to the issue at hand?
+
+-- 
+wobo
+