9 Feb
2009
9 Feb
'09
2:45 p.m.
2009/2/9 James Mckenzie <jjmckenzie51(a)earthlink.net>:
Thus, the need for the warning. Experts tend to know what they are doing, newbies don't for the most part. And yes, I borked many a system as a newbie and as an expert (building kernels for RedHat/Fedora for my Thinkpad.
Yep. The problem is that newbies are coming from Windows - (a) where the answer to inability to do something is to try again as administrator (b) which sometimes takes precautions to keep you from shooting your foot off. Solutions: 1. Get better newbies. (Strikes me as unlikely.) 2. Something to help stop them shooting their foot off that won't hamper those who really want to do this. - d.