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Originally Posted by zinglebarb
For the first highlight ...your one person how many windows users are there?
For the second highlight ... how many of them could do what you can?
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first highlight, i'm not the only one who thinks this way, and i managed starting off on compiling things, never touched packaged based distros. when you say "windows users" are you implying they know nothing? for the people who just use browse the web and read email, what advantage do they have to using linux? barely any.
second highlight, the average joe can use a microwave or a remote for the tv can't they? a simple ./configure --help will show the options they have, don't understand one? thats what google is for! for me if theres an error when compiling i can usually spot whats wrong, for the cases where the problem is new to me, googling for the error has always given a solution. to compile things, it is a simple set of commands that most people are either too lazy to "learn" or think its beyond them