🚀 go-pugleaf

Stephan Rose wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 20:26:53 +0100, dennis@home wrote:
> 
>> "Stephan Rose" <nospam.noway@screwspammers.com> wrote in message
>> news:Z6WdnZP9nbXIjovanZ2dnUVZ8qydnZ2d@giganews.com...
>>> On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 07:27:23 +0100, dennis@home wrote:
>>>
>>>> <spike1@freenet.co.uk> wrote in message
>>>> news:aeqfu4-0re.ln1@ridcully.ntlworld.com...
>>>>> In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.advocacy, dennis@home
>>>>> <dennis@killspam.kicks-ass.net> didnst hastily scribble thusly:
> 3.0,3.1,3.11,95,98,98se,nt,2000,xp,vista,soaris,fedora,unixware,ubuntu,rmx
>>>>>> and a few I have forgotten.
>>>>>> Which have you installed?
>>>>> Too many.
>>>>>
>>>>>> Do you doubt it?
>>>>>> Have you never installed windows?
>>>>> As I said, Too many times.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Let's see some proof that linux didn't warn him then, shall we?
>>>>>
>>>>> Didn't think so.
>>>> If you are so sure it does you could show the warning. The fact that I
>>>> can't show the warning is just evidence that it doesn't exist. You
>>>> really should try and get the logic correct before demanding evidence.
>>> http://fosswire.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/04/
>>> ubuntufeistyinstallpicture-8.png
>>>
>>> Same URL tiny:
>>> http://tinyurl.com/2qc234
>> Thanks for that.. I downloaded 7.04 to see what it did but it wouldn't
>> run under VPC so I still haven't seen the install screens myself.
>>
>> I think that anyone familiar with computers would understand those
>> warnings. but then they wouldn't need them anyway. Its still not
>> particularly clear to a computer illiterate.
>>
>> Maybe something along the lines of  "If you continue you will erase all
>> your documents and pictures and any games and programs you have on this
>> machine. This is not recoverable unless you have made copies of all you
>> stuff on separate media e.g. DVD. If you are unsure please read the
>> documentation or ask questions at http://.."
> 
> Dennis, it does not matter. Seriously, it does not matter. No matter how 
> much you spell it out, no matter how detailed one explains...some user in 
> this world simply will NOT get it.
> 
> It's one of the neverending problems I face writing software. No matter 
> how idiot proof I try to make the user interface, the world always 
> manages to invent a better idiot.
> 
> And honestly, I find "...this will destroy all data..." to be more than 
> clear enough. If someone can't understand the meaning of that I wonder if 
> they should be allowed to operate a toaster...nevermind actually 
> installing an operating system.
> 


Any recommendations re toasters? I am getting one for my birthday to 
burn CDs..

(Someone had to say it)