computer/properties

[Bob Holtzman]

On Mon, Jun 09, 2014 at 04:14:39PM -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> On Mon, 2014-06-09 at 12:41 -0700, Bob Holtzman wrote:
> > > Your justification seems to be "I don't use Ubuntu and I can't remember
> > > the command, and that makes it more of a PITA than the command that I
> > > can remember".
> > 
> > Seems like a valid reason to me.
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> > Hate to be the bearer of bad tidings but what you describe are only
> > problems if you try to actually use your computer. They are honest to 
> > God designed in features. The Ubuntu devs consider users to be morons 
> > and arranged for them to not be able to access their system files 
> > because they might do harm to the system. I believe they call this
> > simplification or some such.
> 
> Your justification for that insulting position about people you don't
> even know is not that your preferred distribution gives you unfettered
> access to system files and Ubuntu doesn't, and not even that you think
> Ubuntu SHOULD give you unfettered access to system files, but rather
> only that you cannot remember that the "-s" flag gives you a shell.
> 
> "I can't remember -s" == "Ubuntu devs consider users to be morons".
> 
> Gotcha.  Irony much?

Try using another distro that doesn't use sudu for a year then switch 
to Ubuntu to update and upgrade and see if you remember all the options 
of sudo. If you can, you will have my eternal admiration.

As far as being insulting, do you deny that the devs have dumbed down
the distro to make it appeal to Windows users? Imho that justifies my 
remark.

-- 
Bob Holtzman
A man is a man who will fight with a sword
or tackle Mt Everest in snow, but the bravest 
of all owns a '34 Ford and tries for 6000 in low.
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