said J Leslie Turriff: | In my years as a mainframe programmer and later administrator, I did | indeed encounter quite a number of Real Men who complained that IBM | provides "too much documentation". That didn't keep them from coming | around periodically to pick my brain. :-) Sadly, I now often find myself | complaining of the lack of documentation in the Unix world. I DO | understand that the team is small and the tasks large, but having the | same problem pop up after each upgrade, with the same group of | incoherent 'just do this and all will be well (until next time)' is | extremely frustrating. <slight rant> when i was doing the previously mentioned swap from a failing MBR drive to a larger GPT drive, i thought there would be documentation -- instructions -- as to how it can be done. searched and searched. found people crowing how they had done it with dual boot, or with an lvm setup, all mine's-bigger-than-yours stuff, but no simple instructions on how to make the swap without losing data. as a result, what should have taken half a day took almost three. annoying as all get out. then again, the reason i didn't want to do a new install was all the tweaks and fiddling i'd done over the years without bothering to document any of it, so . . . </slight rant> -- dep Pictures: http://www.ipernity.com/doc/depscribe/album Column: https://www.athensnews.com/opinion/columns/the_view_from_mudsock_heights/ ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
