Linked by Thom "Slakje" Holwerda on Sun 27th Jul 2003 19:04 UTC
Misinterpreted. I think that is about the best word around to describe the reactions to my previous article. Whether it has been misinterpreted due to people only reading what they want to read, due to an unclear choice of words on my behalf, or other factors, I am going to try it again. I will try to explain my position, again. Now, more stable, the code has been rewritten from scratch!
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"Me? I have a computer so I can be productive, not so I can be an administrator. Therefore, there are distros like SuSE and Mandrake for me."
I am an administrator, and desktop user. I used slackware for my desktop OS back when I started with Linux.
"Unfortunately, he (like so many others) takes a stance that I truly do not understand: that the "easier" distros are ruining all the fun."
Did I say anything about ruining 'fun' - I am talking about Linux. If you can't install Mandrake, read a manual. If you can't understand Slackware, read a manual. If you can't set your VCR clock, read a manual. But if we continue to remove the features which set Linux as LINUX and not Linux trying to be Windows, at what point does it even matter? It should matter, just like Mac OS isn't Linux, Mac OS isn't Windows, Windows isn't QNX... and so on goes the string. Please don't planet ideas that I didn't say. Making things easier, doesn't make it less fun.