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Re: KISS Still Active

From vallor <vallor@vallor.earth>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: KISS Still Active
Date 2026-07-30 05:09 +0000
Organization The Unnamed Newswriter
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At 30 Jul 2026 04:20:55 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 29 Jul 2026 23:45:12 -0400, c186282 wrote:
> 
> >    USED to be that Joe Users could deal, now it's a handful of 'gurus'.
> 
> Yeah, Joe User had it easy back then.
> 
> https://xorg.freedesktop.org/archive/X11R7.7/doc/man/man5/
> xorg.conf.5.xhtml

Nowadays, Linux desktops are like Windows desktops, requiring
two (or more) levels of knowledge: "user" and "guru".

You wouldn't expect grandma to configure esoteric networking on
her MS Windows machine.  Same goes for her Linux machine, if she were
using that.

(I know a Linux grandma who uses Pan on Linux to post to the Usenet,
and she is a "user".  When she has trouble, she gets help from her
daughter, who is a "guru".)

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KISS Still Active Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> - 2026-07-28 20:15 +0000
  Re: KISS Still Active rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-28 22:16 +0000
    Re: KISS Still Active Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> - 2026-07-29 01:57 +0000
      Re: KISS Still Active jayjwa <jayjwa@atr2.ath.cx.invalid> - 2026-07-29 11:51 -0400
        Re: KISS Still Active The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-07-29 18:16 +0100
          Re: KISS Still Active rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-29 18:56 +0000
            Re: KISS Still Active c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-07-29 23:45 -0400
              Re: KISS Still Active rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-07-30 04:20 +0000
                Re: KISS Still Active vallor <vallor@vallor.earth> - 2026-07-30 05:09 +0000
        Re: KISS Still Active Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2026-07-29 23:15 +0000
          Re: KISS Still Active Farley Flud <ff@gnulinux.rocks> - 2026-07-30 02:38 +0000

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