On 22/08/14 06:39 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 5:33 PM, John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com> wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2014 at 05:24:06PM -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> Except that wasting time re-learning a new and strange way to do >>> something that already worked - or how to disable the new thing so it >>> doesn't break your working setup - doesn't really put you ahead of >>> anything. >> >> This is a _major_ release. Things change during _major_ releases. >> Luckily you aren't being forced at gunpoint to use it. >> >> Seriously. Your constant complaints against the Red Hat way of doing >> things got old a decade ago. > > It's not so much 'The' Red Hat way of doing things - although SysV > mostly had it right in the first place. But the annoying part is the > number of Red Hat "Ways' that are just arbitrarily different - like a > car company swapping the brake and gas pedal locations for every new > model. I suppose if you sell training courses you have to make a > reason for people to come back. To continue your analogy, should car companies have stopped changing after the 20s? I mean, the cars then got you were you needed to go, right? Things change. You are certainly free to deny that and stay on old releases, but the world *will* move forward, with or without you. -- Digimer Papers and Projects: https://alteeve.ca/w/ What if the cure for cancer is trapped in the mind of a person without access to education?