On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 16:19, Robin 'Roblimo' Miller wrote:
> And your computer/Linux skills are how many orders of magnitude greater
> than the average person's? :)
>
You want the narcissistic response or the self-deprecating one?
> That's the point, Matt. All those manpages, HOWTOs, READMEs, etc. are
> written for you, not for some poor schmuck who wants to get SuSe or
> Mandrake installed, figure out how to add plugins to Mozilla and make
> the "junk" email filters work, set margins and tabs in OpenOffice, crop
> a jpg image, and wonders why he or she needs to type in a password to
> install a program.
I wasn't disagreeing with the need for easy-to-read documentation, just
that existing docs aren't poor. Poor insinuates unusable or incapable of
explaining design/function/implementation.
Not easy follow for the average Joe is more appropriate.
--Matt Miller Systems Administrator MP TotalCare gpg public key id: 08BC7B06
-- Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Nietzsche
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