god you get so easily offended. I wasn't even talking about you and your X number of years experience.
It was just my opinion that as this is predominantly a forum for beginners, a lot of these errors could quite easily be user error and perhaps not the fault of the software. deleting the preferences might not be the 'go to' solution for all of this.

I've used maya on a 6yo macbook no problem, but yes i see your point everyone. no i dont have root privileges, yes i can unzip things, yes i use a boxx workstation which is actually quite old and finally yes good for me.