Please do not advise non-experts to use expert tools

[ewx]

I've just spent 3 hours fixing naath's Debian unstable install over IRC; it was a real mess. Anyone who knows much about Debian will tell you that you shouldn't be running unstable if you're not capable of dealing with things breaking, and I quite agree, but apparently someone told her to use unstable.

If I were to bill said someone for my time, what do you think would be a reasonable hourly rate?

Comments

[cjwatson]

I suspect this particular problem is due to Debian unstable being RIGHT in the middle of the enormously huge and painful transition to X.org 7.0. If naath had been following Ubuntu's development branch at the time when we made that same transition, she'd have had exactly the same problem; so I don't think that criticism is particularly fair here.

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

Perhaps to some extent. But, there's less of a "just run unstable" mentality within Ubuntu unless you're actually developing at the bleeding-edge; it's much more likely that naath would have been running stable and so would be able to take advantage of whatever transition-from-breezy arrangements you folks build in...