I was basing my stance off the fact that you said the "know your system" philosophy is important, and that we the users should be in control. Which very much could be interpreted as everyone should live by it.
I suppose I could've signposted better that I was speaking in the context of Arch Linux but could be applied to any Linux distro. I wasn't speaking in a general sense just within the parameters of using a PC.
I was basing my stance off the fact that you said the "know your system" philosophy is important, and that we the users should be in control. Which very much could be interpreted as everyone should live by it.
I suppose I could've signposted better that I was speaking in the context of Arch Linux but could be applied to any Linux distro. I wasn't speaking in a general sense just within the parameters of using a PC.