On Mar 12, 2013, at 12:19 PM, John.Florian(a)dart.biz wrote:
I personally could not care less about the defaults Fedora uses. I've been
overriding them for years. I'm just glad I was able to learn these things before
everything became hidden.
Because, naturally, you don't explore, find, or learn anything hidden. Once hidden,
overriding is so much less likely that the critical mass of knowledge sustained by new
users collapses.
I'm only concerned about the future generations that are given
a shiny black box with no way to see what magic happens inside.
Right, because turning the linux boot process into a closed black box is what's being
proposed. Maybe I need to take some more "ridiculous" pills to one up the
absurdity once and for all.
Today's youth have none of the curiosity that I and my friends
had at their age and I blame it on this "you don't need to know how it
works" mentality that is infecting everything.
Oh that's original. Your parents and grandparents never, ever said anything like
this.
If you really want that Apple experience, why don't you just use
their goods?
I do. Curious, isn't it, how I managed to stumble into linux boot loading, and file
systems of all things, never having a single chance of seeing such things? They
weren't merely hidden from me. They didn't even exist.
Chris Murphy