🚀 go-pugleaf

In the sacred domain of comp.os.linux.advocacy,
Gene Jones <jasin@janus.com> didnst hastily scribble thusly:
> chrisv <chrisv@nospam.invalid> wrote:

>> Gene Jones wrote:
>> 
>> > sorry for 
>> > your loss, but linux kids will bitch and complain that it is YOUR fault, 
>> 
>> Which it was.  Only a freaking idiot does partitioning and such on an
>> "important" machine without the knowledge that such things have the
>> ability to cause data loss, especially when you don't know what you're
>> doing.

> ah, on a well crafted OS, it would be IMPOSSIBLE to do what happened to 
> this person. The Linux community screwed up, and should go to work at 
> repairing ALL distros with this FLAW to make sure this combination can 
> never happen again. You guys just lost 80,000 potential linux users by 
> this single error. Fix it, don't bitch.

Fix what exacly?
Remove the ability to nuke windows and let linux take a whole drive?
Fuck off, that's one of the most valuable functions.
Why should we limit functionality just to hand hold a moron incapable of
following simple instructions?

> problem is Linux will have users that aren't poor, or uneducated, they 
> EXPECT things to work like OSX or other high level OSs. 

You expect mac users to be uneducated and poor?
At the prices apple charge, I doubt that.

> Linux is flawed, 

No, it isn't.

> NEVER the user. 

Bullshit.
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