[bkanber]

> Steve Jobs said that if you need to read a user manual (particularly to do the most vanilla usage of a product), the problem is the product. Not you.

He's talking about consumer products, not databases that were intended for use by technology experts. There's a big difference there.

The onus is on you to understand the limitations of software before you start using it. You complain that the 32-bit warning doesn't show up in the package manager, but you still should have read the documentation before committing to a new technology. It's that simple.

Is it a flaw that mongo doesn't work well on 32 bit systems? Maybe. Probably.

Is it a flaw that you didn't do the requisite research before committing to a database and subsequently complaining about it? Definitely.