A *nix section

[bmlkiddo]

You assume that just because people use a distro (such as Ubuntu), they don't see or know of any of these problems that exist. You are assuming that if they knew of these things, that they would care just as much as you and get all heated over it. The reality is, many people do realize a lot of the things that make Ubuntu and several other distros not so traditional and plain out don't care because it doesn't bug them. Basically, you corelate usage to not having knowledge. That's like saying to someone that a twinkie isn't healthy for them. They know that, but they don't care because holy shit twinkies are delicious as fucking hell.

There is no "traditional." The said Distro, Ubuntu, used to be a figure head. It used to be what [almost] everyone used. I'm not going to argue about people using it, ignorant or not as to what's happening. But I can say said distros are shit.
and no, usage does not = knowledge. However, you're never going to touch basic things in Ubuntu. Things you touch in *BSD or even Arch, you will never see in Ubuntu. If you get "good" at Linux by getting good at Ubuntu, you'll be able to trouble shoot Ubuntu. But if you go to trouble shoot Gentoo, or Arch, you're done. You won't be able to do it. Because you won't be exposed to half the basic shit you should know.




Be honest, how many users who use Ubuntu who claim to be knowledgable, do you think, can do something as basic as generate an fstab, or manually edit one for issues. How many users can change cronjobs? These are both two SIMPLE things that are a MAIN part of your *nix system. That EVERYONE should know how to do. But you will never touch these in Ubuntu. I mean sure, you might have to because you Googled a problem, and you had to copy and paste some things. But starting an fstab from the ground up and having knowledge on how to edit properties of your fstab is different than "Oh I opened it once to have my USB mount, I used Google"