On Monday 23 January 2006 10:52 am, David Nielsen wrote: > What kind of end users are we talking about here, you average slashdot > trolls or people who do real work.. what is our typical end user, you > seem to think that you alone know who the target audience is and > nobodies opinion matter except yours. When asked for supportive evidence > for your stance you suggest slashdot as a serious reliable source of > information. Hi I am an end user (and mostly lurker on this list) <slip=into_the_lead_lined_shorts> <shrugging=flak_vest_on> I bought a Radio Shack TRS-80 in 1981. Ivan_I was a z80 running CP/M. I use computers to write, organize photographs, do genealogy and related research. I couldn't do much with RedHat 6.2, but it showed promise. I stayed with 7.3 as long as I could. I ran 8.0. 9.0 was a disaster; I used debian[sigh]. Fedora Core1 and I was back. Ivan_VIII is running FC4. I test on a spare machine, when one is available. What I try to do is get some work done, and enjoy myself. What I try to avoid is to be a preprocessor for a computer. I don't want to learn the mechanics and calling conventions of packages without number. I run kde because gnome is configurable, but not usefully configured. Most of the time, I install Fedora Core twice on the same machine, in order to get the options right. anaconda is just that good. It has been faster and more productive to re-install than to try fix a bad configuration. Before synaptic/apt and (k)yum(ex)/yum, I installed everything. I did not need most of the language packages; but it was easier and SAFER to load it all up. There is nothing worse than finding you need something, and that you are 7 levels of dependencies away from installing it. IMHO, the trick is just to have it work. I have not apprenticed to emacs and I have no vim. This is never going to be a career for me. I am just looking to get a couple of jobs done. It is a joy to connect a digital camera, have it recognized, and just deal with editing and storing snapshots. Following this list is a number of different educations - liberal arts as it were. I am impressed with the professionism and the elan. I don't know how average I am; but I aspire to be and end user. And it is time to wrap this up and have beer. </shrug> </slip> Cheers -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list