Path: ...!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: Now I've done it Date: 16 May 2025 19:21:50 GMT Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <10020en$2fpbu$5@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net N/BG7GqZoVcoNgDeqHgb4Qy5uPzb6ahSAXEg1OtDJg6VLfArvH Cancel-Lock: sha1:6EunXPZ29L6mI9ZKbQKbqtqedO8= sha256:MZ0p9x7PVCJ6OYoIh+k9e/htjkHIbox16OWGCEC0pUs= User-Agent: Pan/0.160 (Toresk; ) Bytes: 2244 On Fri, 16 May 2025 08:46:36 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote: > On 2025-05-15 21:34, rbowman wrote: >> On Thu, 15 May 2025 16:35:51 -0400, CrudeSausage wrote: >> >>> There is no reason for Linux to be complicated. Making it simple for >>> novices to learn it doesn't prevent people from using it in a >>> needlessly complicated fashion should they choose to do so. >> >> I certainly didn't need an excursion into udev rules earlier this week. >> A couple of months ago I didn't need to learn the intricacies of >> pipewire and its little friends. I'm not either novice nor a Linux guru >> but I really don't like wading through that '90s style configuration >> crap. > > If Larry Pietraskiewicz had his way, people would be forced to go > through that 90s style configuration crap all the time. Imagine needing > to enter the horizontal and vertical refresh rate of your monitor every > time you install Linux. It would be a pain in the ass, but that's how it > used to be. The first thing I do with a new machine is to set the mouse to left handed. Even that was a pain in the ass finding xorg.conf and then dealing with the obscure Pointer buttons. Good old days my ass.