On 12/11/2019 07:55, R.Wieser wrote:
> Mike,
>
>> You were expecting kid gloves or something?
>
> Pardon me ?    Whats that suposed to mean ?
>
> But if you want a comparision, its like having bought a car but not getting
> a "users manual" with it - nor does such information seem to be available
> anywhere*.   Now how am I supposed to figure out where to change the oil, or
> worse, what kind of oil needs to go in there ?
>

No, its not like having BOUGHT a car, its like having been *given* one.

Well the info is and isn't available, depending on how hard you look.

Once I phoned a major company and was passed to...the guy who wrote the
software! In fact TWICE.

Of course with Linux you can look at the source code.


> *and yes, I've already spend a couple of days looking for it.
>
>> This is usenet,
>
> Exactly.  I don't think I'm the first or only one who bumped into it, and
> hoped that I would reach someone would already have gone thru it  and thus
> could give me a pointer or two.
>
The problem is that in order to give linux the pretty face and 'user
friendliness' of Windows, the modern GUI contains a lot of 'this is the
one way we are going to let you do it - just like windows - and you like
it or lump it'.


> But, seeing that you have your disdain at ready but have not even hinted
> anything in the direction of a solution, should I take it you have no clue
> yourself either ?     Yeah, that would be true Usenet form nowerdays. :-(
>

I doubt that anyone has a clue. It took me over a day to find out in
Mint Mate how NOT to have automatically created 'default user
directories' . I would delete the bastards and there they were again.
Eventually web searching gave me a hint that there was some 'DONT TOUCH
THIS' config file buried somewhere listing these and if you TOUCHED it
and deleted the entry, they didn't get remade on boot.

Probably the guy who wrote that bit of code has forgetotten how he did
it anyway.  So truly no one knows. I have forgotten ALL the code I wrote
in my working life apart from a few salient exceptions that were
interesting.

> Regards,
> Rudy Wieser
>
>


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