Comments on: Apple community eats one of its own http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2007/04/11/apple-community-eats-one-of-its-own/ I'll get there one day. Fri, 21 Nov 2008 20:13:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-beta3 hourly 1 By: Command Line Warriors » Blog Archive » This Week on the Command Line: The Light and Dark Sides http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2007/04/11/apple-community-eats-one-of-its-own/comment-page-1/#comment-14739 Command Line Warriors » Blog Archive » This Week on the Command Line: The Light and Dark Sides Sun, 06 May 2007 20:45:03 +0000 http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2007/04/11/apple-community-eats-one-of-its-own/#comment-14739 [...] Andy finds an angry blog post of a Mac user. To repeat my comment that I made on Andy’s blog, that Mac user thinks that he is a Mac OS X genius and installs a load of weird third party stuff; he then starts to randomly delete folders that he does not recognise (i.e. the /usr folder), and then blames Apple and everyone else that his computer does not work. Even though /usr is a core part of OS X, he describes that folder as ‘Unix’ which, he argues, means he should not have to learn about that. [...] [...] Andy finds an angry blog post of a Mac user. To repeat my comment that I made on Andy’s blog, that Mac user thinks that he is a Mac OS X genius and installs a load of weird third party stuff; he then starts to randomly delete folders that he does not recognise (i.e. the /usr folder), and then blames Apple and everyone else that his computer does not work. Even though /usr is a core part of OS X, he describes that folder as ‘Unix’ which, he argues, means he should not have to learn about that. [...]

]]> By: Zeth http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2007/04/11/apple-community-eats-one-of-its-own/comment-page-1/#comment-11655 Zeth Sat, 21 Apr 2007 14:58:43 +0000 http://strugglers.net/~andy/blog/2007/04/11/apple-community-eats-one-of-its-own/#comment-11655 A very interesting post that. My opinion has always been that you must know about the tools you use. We do not let just anyone just jump into a car and start driving it, for example, they need to take lessons first. Otherwise you should stick to the bus. It is similar with a multi-purpose personal computer, if you are not willing to read and learn then you should have something else, perhaps an embedded internet tablet appliance. That user thinks that he is a Mac genius and installs a load of weird third party stuff, he then starts to randomly delete folders that he does not recognise (i.e. the /usr folder), and then blames Apple and everyone else that his computer does not work. Even though /usr is a core part of OS X, he describes that folder as 'Unix' which, he argues, means he should not have to learn about that. Very weird and circular argument indeed. A very interesting post that. My opinion has always been that you must know about the tools you use. We do not let just anyone just jump into a car and start driving it, for example, they need to take lessons first. Otherwise you should stick to the bus.

It is similar with a multi-purpose personal computer, if you are not willing to read and learn then you should have something else, perhaps an embedded internet tablet appliance.

That user thinks that he is a Mac genius and installs a load of weird third party stuff, he then starts to randomly delete folders that he does not recognise (i.e. the /usr folder), and then blames Apple and everyone else that his computer does not work. Even though /usr is a core part of OS X, he describes that folder as ‘Unix’ which, he argues, means he should not have to learn about that. Very weird and circular argument indeed.

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