Re: KISS Still Active

At 30 Jul 2026 04:20:55 GMT, rbowman <[email protected]> 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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