Documentation?

[Tuomo Valkonen]

On 2009-04-07, Daniel Stone <daniel at fooishbar.org> wrote:
> That or an ability to read documentation.

1000-page developer documention. Yup. That's the approach
to most things in Linux these days. fontconfig, Xft, udev, 
HAL, all screaming out loud POWER USERS: VANISH! THIS OS IS
FOR DEVELOPERS AND UNDEMANDING IDIOT USERS ONLY! With so-called
configuration files actually being program source code, 
often mangled into a non-programing language (XML) mess, 
and the mostly non-existent documention hidden within 
developer documention (as is the case with gtk, although
with proper configuration files).

The best configuration file is the concise and self-documenting
one.

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