Gun_Smoke wrote:I you want to just give me the RTFM or the like
Actually, of all the times i saw that kind of answer, the solution to the issue WAS in the FM. I haven't got the link, but someone posted in this forum to say he couldn't compile a program. He was using ./configure, and the particular program masn't to be built this way.
Well, he posted the output of the uncompressing of the archive, and fact is there was a README file, and even more important IMO: there was an executable named "install"... He didn't even took the time to search, he just typed ./configure, saw it wasn't right, and went straight-away to a forum.
I totally agree that sometimes the answer isn't obvious. At all. In your case, i also had troubles finding where are those usb port in my computer (and i found it the "hard" way: automounting them, then seing what is mounted using the "mount" command...).
I think noone is saying that Debian users should know everything about everything, but only that you should try to think a little by yourself before running to the closest forum available, pasting the command someone gave you, and no to have learn anything in the process... So the next time you encouter this issue, you won't be able to deal with it yourself, and you'll just ask again...
So, that's kinda different from microsoft, because on linux alsmot everything is centralized: you install 99% of your softwares using apt-get or compiling them. That's why you have to be - even if only a little - awake of how does the whole thing work. On microsoft, you just download the .exe from the software internet page, and if i doesn't work, well... You just try to find something else, because odds are you are not gonna fix it...