On 06/09/2014 09:56 AM, Lew Wolfgang wrote:
This diatribe against Linda is interesting to me. It's obvious that we all live in our own "frames of reference", or "bubbles" if you will. People/things/ideas outside of our own personal bubbles cause suspicion and hostility. I'm sure that Damian, Dirk and Linda are fine, upstanding, and honest people, but they are perceived by those outside their bubbles as being "unhelpful".
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(sorry for the off-topic rumination, my caffeine fix hasn't kicked in yet)
Regards, Lew
We all use our computers differently. Me, I'm just an average home user. I surf the web. Do e-mail. The most strenuous things I do are create web pages and I use Winff with avconv to convert video once a week. I only know one command line string by heart. That one installs Synaptic on a clean install because the KDE package handlers suck big time. I have no idea what systemd is or does. I couldn't care less as long as my computer boots up and works. See, I'm the computer user that everyone says Linux isn't ready for.
I suspect the ones doing all the complaining are the power users that like to get into the systems guts and tweak all the settings. Change means that what they want to do no longer works. That upsets them. They want things to remain static forever. Someone much smarter than myself one remarked that the only constant is change. Personally, I believe the change is towards entropy, but that's another story. This discussion with more than 200 mails in various related threads has been extremely informative to me. I've been using linux for 15 years, but I'm far less knowledgeable than people on both sides of the argument. I've been tempted to write many times because I find the
On 06/09/2014 05:47 PM, Billie Walsh wrote: personal attacks disturbing. At various points in the discussion I have alternated sides - thinking the "haters" are correct, then I have thought the "supporters" are correct. And I'm still going back and forth. I am not saying everyone is correct, I don't have the technical knowledge to be more sure. But I do think that both sides have something valuable to contribute. I think that acknowledging that and "speaking" to each other that way in our discussions is a key to keeping this community and the open source community in general alive and thriving. I believe GOOD WILL (not only technical knowledge) is the key to progress. Gustav. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org