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My method is not sophistiocated but it works (Score: 1)

by fnj@pipedot.org on 2014-05-12 05:15 (#1H2)

I just install a minimal system, and as soon as I am booted and running, as the occasion arises and I find I need package X, I just use apt-get, yum, or pacman to install it. I don't grasp what the problem is. All that stuff is always online and a few keystrokes away.

I don't use Nvidia or AMD video crap, so the whole cluster foxtrot of getting that garbage working is not anything that affects me. I am perfectly happy with my Intel video which has excellent drivers built into every distro and Just Works.

Re: My method is not sophistiocated but it works (Score: 2, Insightful)

by danieldvorkin@pipedot.org on 2014-05-12 17:11 (#1HF)

I just use apt-get, yum, or pacman to install it. I don't grasp what the problem is.
"Possibly most important: expecting someone to look for an answer to a question they don't even know exists! This is a very common problem in advanced technical user circles, nobody remembers their own learning curve, and starts to think that highly specialized technical knowledge is somehow something that people should know."

Everyone has to start somewhere, and in the Unix(-alike) world, people who started a while back are justifiably notorious for treating people who started more recently like shit.

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2014-05-14 19:11 Insightful +1 songofthepogo@pipedot.org

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