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That's my reasoning. He can't force the universe to not cause his install of windows XP to mess up his existing linux install, and yet he demands that it does not! He must back it up if he is interested, and if he is going to refuse to back it up, then he is not interested, so why ask? What's he on about? And why? How can he be so arrogant as to demand that the universe does not mess him up?
There's nothing problematic there. I am telling him to calm down and stop making mountains out of molehills. He apparently has a skewed perception of that particular corner of the universe and this is intended to help reorient him - he is presently what the psychologists would call "insane". He is obsessive and panicky about a perfectly noncontroversial and everyday thing. He needs to obtain perspective.
They don't! Where do you get that from!
I have no idea why you should think so - what a person can handle is up to them! I certainly had never booted from a rescue CD the first time I booted from a rescue CD! And I could handle it. Ditto bootloader.
Perhaps this is more of that strange panicky worldview. Maybe that's also the reason he thinks that he's being attacked!
Of course. The question is illogical, bizarre, self-contradictory, arrogant, and just plain strange!
That's to point out what's wrong with it! He can't demand that he not have to make a backup, because a backup is a safeguard against things going wrong. WinXP might erase his disk. If he cares, he should make a backup.
His perceptions are upside-down. They're the problem. Fix the perceptions and everything will be trivial. There is no technical difficulty.
I don't see anything but normality there! Person acts abusively and arrogantly and irrationally, so the answer is to tell them to calm down, cease making a hokie, and just do the natural easy trivial thing.
Well, you are reading them pretty strangely!
I beg your pardon! I most certainly was not! Where do you get that idea from? And where do people get these bizarre ideas in general? (he says, rhetorically, since "out of their...
Why? I don't care what his experience level is! If he doesn't understand something, he can ask.
I.e. what on earth was that all about?) Please do! Raise some questions about it. I don't claim either knowledge (I hope I have none) or experience (I hope I forget everything as soon...
Sure, but so what?
Why would I care about what they're comfortable with? The answer does not change by person. It's a technical thing!
Oh I understand, but increasing global happiness is not my aim. Making people happy is not an aim either. Encouraging sanity might well be an aim. I would never hesitate between choosing a sane answer and an answer that is intended to make someone happy.
Peter
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