On Tue, 23 Dec 2008, Florin Iucha wrote: > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 03:25:32PM -0600, Mike Miller wrote: > >>> A newbie who goes around uninstalling things will get his comeuppance. >> >> In my case, the sound card didn't work until I uninstalled pulse audio. >> So the newbie on my system would have had a comeuppance either way. > > Hopefully the newbie with your system/hardware problem will read a few > threads on the forums, or ask in the IRC, and hopefully whomever > suggests a newbie to do X, has done it already and knows the pitfalls > and how to recover from them. In my case, I was able to use Lynx from the text-based command line, but I think most noobs would have to borrow someone elses computer to look things up -- when Gnome fails, you can't open your web browser. It would be huge hassle for most people. Mike