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Re: upgrade to testing

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On 6/15/21 6:08 PM, Francisco M Neto wrote:
> Honestly worth a lot more.
> 	There are a lot of people that are not that familiar with Debian,
> and sometimes it's comprehensible that they don't look for search
> engines right away; a lot of times the answers that come up on a search
> apply to derivatives. Ubuntu is so ubiquitous these days that I've seen
> plenty of people that just follow instructions meant for it, but under
> Debian.
>
> 	So it's (from a certain point of view) comendable that they come to
> this list instead. After all this is _the_ Debian User Group; and it's
> sad that sometimes they are met with less-than-tolerant responses.
>
> 	Although I can completely understand (and to some extent, relate to)
> the way some people feel when a discussion list is sometimes treated as
> a support desk, a more welcoming response is more likely to create a
> more conscientious Debian user.
>
> That was MY €0.02.
>
I must concur. I understand sending people away to research things on 
debian.org. But consider: googling across the internet's trillions of 
documents to find an answer, or filtering through the abundance of 
documentation on debian.org... it's a helluva lot easier to just ask the 
question here. A lot of the people here don't have to look up the 
answer; they know it already. And as demonstrated, the answer isn't that 
difficult to express.

I've been using Debian from probably 20 years now. I'm just advocating 
for some more tolerance.

Paul

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