Using Ubuntu absolves the user of personal responsibility?

[Ouattara Oumar Aziz]

Alexander Skwar :
> · cantormath <ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org>:
> 
>> If people what to be l33t per say, they
>> got to learn to read a man, but if my grandma what her email, I dont
>> want her having to open terminal to learn how.
> 
> That's fine. In this case, grandma needs to find an admin for
> her system.

Come on, Alexander ! I admire your technical skills, but I think you're 
to much into it.
Understand that some people may just want there system to run (without 
knowing much of it).

I believe Ubuntu want to be usable by anyone, the most easily. 
Concerning the grandma story, I think the reaction of someone with 
technical skill like yours (if you want to help Ubuntu in its logic) 
should be to think about a way to simplify the thing so that users only 
need to search into the documentation of your solution and solve the case.

As an example , the three types of response given will mostly lead the 
user to type a command on the shell. Why not think about a nautilus 
script that will mount the .iso just by selecting the option in the 
right click menu ?  after making that you may not have anymore questions 
on the subject.
NOTE : one script making that exist and that's what I use myself. by 
that, I save some time, and I also impress my colleagues about how 
ubuntu can be user-friendly (On windows they can't mount an iso with 
right clicking on it :p ).

the script : http://lecoindespotes.free.fr/IMG/tgz/mountiso.sh.tgz
(You should read it before using it)