Using Ubuntu absolves the user of personal responsibility?

[Alexander Skwar]

Gilles Gravier <Gilles at Gravier.org>:
> Alexander Skwar wrote:
>> Gilles Gravier <Gilles at Gravier.org>:

>>> So don't try to make a geek out of every user who asks a question.
>>>     
>>
>> I don't.
>>   
> But you try to make them an educated Linux user / admin (mount isn't for 
> users, it's for admins)...

How did you get that idea, that mount isn't for users?

OTOH: Who's the admin of a system? On simple "home user machines", the
home user is the admin, so why is it bad to know "admin commands"?

>>> Those  
>>> who want to be geeks, once they see the mount -t iso9660... answer will 
>>> go and man mount to learn more.
>>>     
>>
>> Or they might not, as the command works right away. It's much more
>> straight forward, to point people to the documentation, so that they
>> can  find out for themselves what to do.
>>   
> If they want to learn, they will. If they don't want to, they won't.

True. I can't make anybody learn and I don't care that much....

> And  
> if they are discourraged by having to go search for information 
> somewhere on the web, they might remove Ubuntu and re-isntall Windows.

Well...


Alexander Skwar
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