that's fair enough. But let's be clear. Just because I always skip the first chapter of my stereo's documentation ("turning on your stereo") since it's so obvious how to connect things and turn it on, all the ports are very clearly labeled, etc, that does not mean that any stereo manual can be considered good if it does not include that chapter :)
I think I'm basically not winning any friends with this line of thinking, but I just see this as a long, recurring problem. It would be the same with a certain open source movement's long-standing alternative to a certain very well entranched operating system: they are horizontal substitutes for each other, and yet people who are expert on the entrenched system (power users, even) have given up on the open source alternative, because they "could not turn it on". (Get to the same place they get to after a fresh install of their entrenched operating system).
I'm not going to say more because these are (whatever those-things-that-are-landmines-floating-in-water are called)-filled waters.
I think I'm basically not winning any friends with this line of thinking, but I just see this as a long, recurring problem. It would be the same with a certain open source movement's long-standing alternative to a certain very well entranched operating system: they are horizontal substitutes for each other, and yet people who are expert on the entrenched system (power users, even) have given up on the open source alternative, because they "could not turn it on". (Get to the same place they get to after a fresh install of their entrenched operating system).
I'm not going to say more because these are (whatever those-things-that-are-landmines-floating-in-water are called)-filled waters.