I'd like to know how many "basic unskilled" users have noticed when fedora moved to systemd ? That should be a good way to inform the community about this technical switch. Best, Antoine 2012/7/26 Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 12:31 +0200, Alexandre Ferrando wrote: >> On 26 July 2012 12:07, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > I don't claim to be an expert, I already mentioned that I'm a dummy. So >> > again: Is Linux in the future for experts only? >> > >> >> Arch has always been targeted towards a competent userbase, if you're >> not that kind of person, there's still distros that don't require you >> to tinker with your system (ubuntu, fedora, suse, mint, mandriva / >> mageia etc...) > > I run Ubuntu, Debian, Suse and Arch. Until now I'm able to handle this, > but I don't know any German city or company using Linux anymore ... of > course, there are a few exceptions, I'm aware of them. Arch is the less > painful distro I know, so the recommendation to switch to another > distro, especially to distros I already use is stupid. > > Did you ever take a look how many men and how many women are subscribed > to Linux mailing lists? ... Sorry, I tend to become OT, but back to the > topic. Are you and some others really interested in getting an OS for > everybody, or do you enjoy to be one of the few experts? > > I'm not against systemd, I just wish to be able to get some explanation, > in German! > > Thank you for the links you'll send me, that are understandable and > short enough so that everybody is able to read and understand them > within three hours. > > Regards, > Ralf >