interesting article, for all those who think Ubuntu is already easy

[Robert Spanjaard]

On Thu, 25 May 2006 01:13:38 +1000, James "Doc" Livingston wrote:

>> it is easier, if it is "pointy clicky" with tooltips etc. It is much easier 
>> than editting some obscure file as root whose syntax they probably do not 
>> understand
> 
> Adding tooltips to "magic" options doesn't usually help much - if the
> user doesn't know what the option is for, an extra sentence won't make
> much of a difference.
> 
> I can't think of a particularly useful tooltip besides "this option may
> make your computer work better, or break it horribly. We can't figure
> out which, so it's probably not a good idea to change it."

Does that mean you don't know how to explain the benefits/risks of
enabling DMA to a user?

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