On 04/06/15 21:31, Anto wrote:
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> On 04/06/15 20:51, Steve Litt wrote:
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>> <snip>
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>> Imagine the difference...
>>
>> You come home from Costco clutching your brand new laptop, all hot and
>> bothered to install Devuan because you've heard it's simpler and better
>> made than the others. You boot your Devuan DVD, and it tells you your
>> network card needs a firmware. Fortunately for you, the documentation
>> *screamed* that you might need nonfree firmware, walked you through
>> exactly how to thumb-drive it, you use a different computer to put it
>> on the thumb drive, stick it in, try again, and the install goes
>> perfectly. Devuan was every bit as good as you thought.
>>
>> Bottom line: Be on the same team as reasonable users.
>>
>> SteveT
>>
>> Steve Litt
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>> http://www.troubleshooters.com/key
>>
>
> Hello Steve,
>
> According to the approach that Daniel suggested as I understood it,
> the story is a bit different...
>
> You come home from Costco clutching your brand new laptop, all hot and
> bothered to install Devuan because you've heard it's simpler and
> better made than the others. You boot your Devuan DVD, and it tells
> you your network card needs a firmware. Fortunately for you, the
> documentation *screamed* that you might need nonfree firmware, walked
> you through exactly how to thumb-drive it, you use a different
> computer to put it on the thumb drive, stick it in, try again, The
> installer gives you the option to choose the firmware from the
> available list or abort the installation. As you trust the firmware,
> you select it. If that would be proprietary firmware, you will be
> given a license agreement to accept or reject it (to abort the
> installation). After you read (assuming you have time) and accept the
> license agreement, the install goes perfectly. Devuan was every bit as
> good as you thought.
>
> I am not sure thought if the installer would really do that.
> Especially on the proprietary part, that looks exactly the same as
> what Windows does (at work, I don't have any other choice rather than
> using Windows).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Anto
>

Off topic.

I am not sure why my Thunderbird does not strike-through this sentence:
*Fortunately for you, the documentation *screamed* that you might need
nonfree firmware, walked you through exactly how to thumb-drive it, you
use a different computer to put it on the thumb drive, stick it in, try
again,*. So my email looks strange.