Blood Lesson WARNING re "WARTY" Install

[Ewan Mac Mahon]

On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 11:45:38AM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
> On Mon, May 09, 2005 at 05:41:40PM +0200, Dennis Kaarsemaker wrote:
> > Only if you are stupid enough to let it overwrite your data...
> 
> That's absolutely the wrong attitude to take, and will get
> Ubuntu precisely zero converts.
Who cares about getting converts like this? The OP is either daft enough
to miss several big obvious warnings and arrogant enough to assume that
the fault lies with an OS sucessfully used by thousands of other people
rather than with him, or he's trolling on purpose.  Either way he's not
likely to be much of an asset to the community.

> That attitude is endemic among the Linux/Unix community, and it needs
> to stop.
> 
It really doesn't. If a newcomer barged into your local pub and started
shouting unfounded abuse at everyone you'd rightly expect them to be
chucked out and barred from coming back. This is a relatively pleasant
list to hang around in; people are mostly nice, knowledgable and
helpful. The OP is none of those things everyone here is better off if
they just shut up and go away.

Ewan
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