24 Mar
2018
24 Mar
'18
2:58 p.m.
On Saturday 24 March 2018 05:30:49 deloptes wrote:
I was thinking a while if I should answer this - I
mean, start looking for
answer yourself as I don't feel to be a babysitter or put questions forward
if you search for an answer for lets say 30 minutes and can not find any
usable.
Of course everybody is free to ask or answer ... but I think you are asking
too much without listening and this is the motivation to write this,
because I told you to remove all that was not custom installed from /opt,
but you talk too much and listen too little. This is pure chaos.
Ask a definite question, complete the task and close the topic, after this
open new topic.
From the length of the discussion I can conclude that the question was
vague and it went off topic too much.
Just close this question with "my vanishing root partition" and open
another on how to proceed with /opt on new install
regards
Actually, I've been done with "my vanishing root partition" for
several days
now. Other people have answered, and so I continue the thread, and ought to
have stopped when it went off-topic.
You might not have noticed, but I've been more or less offline for most of the
past week, while rebuilding my system. I made a few replies when I briefly
came back online.
I always search online first for answers to my tech questions, usually for
weeks or even months, for how to resolve problems, and otherwise I have lots
of books on Linux. Only after I have failed to find answers do I ask here on
the mailing list. My problem is not lack of searching, but rather that I
don't know quite how to ask the questions, because I am not really a geek. I
have only made myself into a kind of semi-demi-geek out of necessity, because
I cannot do otherwise.
About July or August of 2017 I installed Debian and Trinity, and I've
participated actively in the mailing list only since about November 2017,
once I had got TDE up and running fairly smoothly. Now I am just trying to
iron out the kinks.
I always ran KDE3, and haven't found a DE to compare with it, but changing to
Debian and Trinity takes a little more effort than running a ready-made
system. And by the way, I think the developers are doing a great job, and
I've watched Trinity improve over the years; I only wish it were easier to
find information. Then you wouldn't be bothered by my questions, as I would
rather read than to have exchanges like this.
In hopes that I might learn something, if I picked the brains of people who
know more than I, I put my questions to the group. Now, if you could kindly
tell me how properly to ask questions, I would be most obliged. I don't know
how else to learn but to ask, and I only ask when I haven't been able to find
the answers on my own.
"Those who know do not speak,
and those who speak do not know."
Regarding listening: I tried all the applicable suggestions that other put
forward, in trying to sort out this problem. However, I will save my specific
questions for a separate post under a different heading.
You are right, though, about it veering off-topic. Sorry about that, and I
ought to have either put the matter to rest or made a different heading; but
again, I was in the middle of rebuilding my system, you see.
I am just trying to learn, and the only way I know how to ask is just to ask.
Bill
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