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Re: another reason

From	owl <owl@rooftop.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject	Re: another reason
Date	2015-10-09 18:59 +0000
Organization	O.W.L.
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A.M <.m@nsn.s> wrote:
> On 2015-10-09 2:46 PM, owl wrote:
>> A.M <.m@nsn.s> wrote:
>>> On 2015-10-09 2:19 PM, owl wrote:
>>>> A.M <.m@nsn.s> wrote:
>>>>> On 2015-10-09 4:29 AM, owl wrote:
>>>>>> Another reason to hate phonetards.
>>>>>> Recently moved from ubuntu 10.04 lts to debian jessie.
>>>>>> ubuntu used to automount my media player as mass storage.
>>>>>> Now debian wants to use mtp just to cater to phonetards.
>>>>>> Of course none of the jmtpfs, mtp-tools, etc. stuff works on this
>>>>>> device.  Die, phonetards!
>>>>>
>>>>> WTF is a phonetard?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> http://bit.ly/1lbj5pV
>>>
>>> Are you suggesting that Linux doesn't allow your device to be recognized
>>> as a straightforward mass storage device anymore as a result? That seems
>>> unlikely.
>>>
>> 
>> As unlikely as it seems, that is indeed the case, at least for Debian.
> 
> Philosophically-speaking, Debian is my favourite but I never had much
> like for how it operates outside of the command-line. It's great to run
> servers with but as a desktop operating system, I always preferred
> Fedora and Ubuntu. Debian's developers never thought much of providing a
> decent desktop experience from what I could tell.
> 
> Of course, considering that the components used in Debian end up being
> used by its derivatives, perhaps all distributions are going to behave
> in that manner shortly?
> 

It still mounts my camera just fine.  It's only the media player that
it insists on talking to over mtp.

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another reason owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-10-09 08:29 +0000
  Re: another reason "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-10-09 10:02 -0400
    Re: another reason Onion Knight <onionknight@linuxmail.org> - 2015-10-09 10:06 -0400
      Re: another reason "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-09 11:11 -0400
        Re: another reason "Ezekiel" <zeke@nosuchemail.com> - 2015-10-09 11:46 -0400
          Re: another reason Onion Knight <onionknight@linuxmail.org> - 2015-10-09 11:55 -0400
            Re: another reason owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-10-09 20:06 +0000
          Re: another reason Lloyd Parsons <lloydp211@gmail.com> - 2015-10-09 16:09 +0000
            Re: another reason Onion Knight <onionknight@linuxmail.org> - 2015-10-09 12:11 -0400
              Re: another reason "Dr. John Grubor" <grubor@grubor.org.invalid> - 2015-10-12 00:46 +0000
            Re: another reason "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-09 14:30 -0400
          Re: another reason "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-09 13:08 -0400
    Re: another reason owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-10-09 18:30 +0000
  Re: another reason "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-09 11:04 -0400
    Re: another reason owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-10-09 18:19 +0000
      Re: another reason "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-09 14:40 -0400
        Re: another reason owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-10-09 18:46 +0000
          Re: another reason "A.M" <.m@nsn.s> - 2015-10-09 14:49 -0400
            Re: another reason owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-10-09 18:59 +0000

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