Re: [PLUG] Slides from my Gentoo Talk

Yes, exactly. Some playful sh*t talking can be a nice way to know the audience is paying attention and is involved. It's also an easy way for the presenter to blow off some steam by replying if desired, at least in my experience.

On Jan 14, 2016 20:19, "Steve Litt" <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:

Ohhhhh,

You mean giving the presenter a buncha sh*t! Yeah, I get that a lot
when I present, and I like it that way. Of course, I give the sh*t
right back to the audience, so it's all good.

SteveT

On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 13:28:50 -0500
Chris Norton <chris@nortoninc.info> wrote:

> Steve,
>
> I think you're overthinking this, which is ok. The heckling we are
> doing is more like trying to make the presenter feel a little more
> comfortable, not to suggest that a gentoo talk should be about Arch,
> or a fedora talk should be about ubuntu. Also, I think Rich was being
> sarcastic.
>
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2016 at 1:16 PM, Steve Litt
> <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 14 Jan 2016 10:21:38 -0500
> > "Rich Mingin (PLUG)" <plug@frags.us> wrote:
> >
> >
> > >
> > > On Wed, Jan 13, 2016 at 3:56 PM, Steve Litt
> > > <slitt@troubleshooters.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 11:51:46 -0500
> > > > Chris Norton <chris@nortoninc.info> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Rich, you did a fantastic job, even with the hecklers.
> > > >
> > > > How does one heckle a Gentoo presentation? What didn't they like
> > > > about Gentoo? I mean, it's a distro. What distro did the
> > > > hecklers prefer?
> > > >
> > > > SteveT
> >
> > > Arch, of course.
> > >
> > > Am I answering rhetorical questions again?
> > >
> > > I'll go sit in the back, where my heckling will be less
> > > noticable.
> >
> > Fascinating. From where I stand, Gentoo and Arch are similar. Both
> > have chroot installs. Both require some Linux literacy from their
> > users. Both are simple and stable. The only hecklepoints I can
> > imagine is that one does live compile software installation and one
> > doesn't, and one requires systemd and one doesn't (yet).
> >
> > Now if you'd said "Ubuntu", the heckleroom would be obvious.
> >
> > SteveT
> >
> > Steve Litt
> > January 2016 featured book: Twenty Eight Tales of Troubleshooting
> > http://www.troubleshooters.com/28
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