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Re:If You Use Comcast DNS Servers, You Cannot Read This (try... by mooism2 on Sunday April 29, 2012 @12:12PM (#3906280)
> I believe that OS makers should give people an option to choose among several DNS servers during the installation process, and explain why.

And most people won't have any idea which is the correct answer, will pick one at random or pick the default, and then spend the rest of the install process worrying that they picked the wrong answer. Why would any OS maker want to inflict that on their users?

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Re:If You Use Comcast DNS Servers, You Cannot Read This (try... by diego on Sunday April 29, 2012 @12:18PM (#3906292)
You already pick a ton of defaults when installing an OS (English keyboard, whatever). Same as when downloading something from a random mirror. People don't think twice about these things.
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Re:If You Use Comcast DNS Servers, You Cannot Read This (try... by pavel_lishin on Sunday April 29, 2012 @12:28PM (#3906314)
My mother has never once downloaded anything from a mirror.

On the other hand, she has also never installed an operating system.

Perhaps there should be an "advanced" step during install, which would be skipped by default.

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