The options you mentioned do require internet access but, as I previously mentioned in this thread, you can create a full bootable and installable version of Lion from the App Store download just using Disk Utility and any mountable media that has a 4GB partition.
ok, I have a question. We have two macbooks, and one imac.
one of the macbooks was in for some service at apple and they upgraded it to snow leopard for free.
the other macbook and the imac, still have leopard (they were never upgraded)
so the ? is, if i download Lion on the Snow Leopard machine, and make a boot DVD as mentioned, can I use that to install Lion on the other two macs as well?
Absolutely, but for the easiest method (creation of a boot and install DVD that includes everything, not just recovery tools) remember to make your disc BEFORE running the Lion installer, as you need this to create the disk, and it deletes itself after install, and won;t download again as it will say it is already installed.
The options you mentioned do require internet access but, as I previously mentioned in this thread, you can create a full bootable and installable version of Lion from the App Store download just using Disk Utility and any mountable media that has a 4GB partition.
This - only remember you only get once to do this, once you have installed Lion the package frill you downloaded it deleted and you can only redownload it from a Snow Leopard system again. However, burn it as your first task, and you have an installer disc that works in every conceivable way just like your Snow Leopard DVD media, no internets required.
Absolutely, but for the easiest method (creation of a boot and install DVD that includes everything, not just recovery tools) remember to make your disc BEFORE running the Lion installer, as you need this to create the disk, and it deletes itself after install, and won;t download again as it will say it is already installed.
Yes, it's good advice to create your backup before you install Lion as it does delete the installer… however you can always re-download the 3.5GB installer again by going into the Mac App Store, clicking on Purchases from the tab bar then, whilst continuing to hold down the Option Key, clicking on Mac OS X Lion and then Install. Note: you'll know you did it correctly because it will say Install instead of Installed.
Absolutely, but for the easiest method (creation of a boot and install DVD that includes everything, not just recovery tools) remember to make your disc BEFORE running the Lion installer, as you need this to create the disk, and it deletes itself after install, and won;t download again as it will say it is already installed.
There may be a way after you have installed Lion - if you are lucky. It could be in Time Machine, or in the comments in the linked article someone found it stashed away in a Lost and Found folder after he had installed it on his machine.
Anyway - there are a few important steps that need to be taken to create a usable USB Bootable drive. I post this link again...
Lion creates a recovery partition that allows you to boot up and re-download Lion from your App Store account. Post-Lion Macs also have this built directly into the firmware. "Recovery Disk Assistant" essentially copies your existing recovery partition onto external media, so it must still re-download Lion from your App Store account to install.
Downloading Lion from the App Store and burning the internal DMG file onto a thumb drive seems to be the closest thing to an official Lion USB Thumb Drive.
It seems that the Lion USB Thumb Drive would be priced higher because it is not tied to an App Store account, so the potential for casual piracy is higher. Although I doubt this would have any impact on anyone determined to pass it around, since burning your own thumb drive from the App Store download is easy enough.
I am a bit surprised that Apple doesn't include a one-time Apple Store redemption code with the USB key (similar to the "up to date" program) so that the purchaser can tie the Lion USB purchase to one App Store account for future media-less recovery.
As an aside, I think Apple discontinued the install DVD because the experience is TERRIBLE. Lion installer must literally boot up a version of the full OS core and then copy over the files, because it takes forever to boot the installer from DVD.
As an aside, I think Apple discontinued the install DVD because the experience is TERRIBLE. Lion installer must literally boot up a version of the full OS core and then copy over the files, because it takes forever to boot the installer from DVD.
Optical drives are slow and optical media are inherently more prone to damage due to their unprotected design, but the reason Apple moved away from DVDs is that they are moving away from ODD (optical disc drives). The MBAs are a huge success, three out of 4 Macs are notebooks, and even the new Mac mini Â? a desktop*Â? doesn't have an ODD.
On top of that, the ODD haven't increased in capacity or speed for the svelte 9.5mm ultra-slim slot-loading drives Apple requires short of going with a $500+ Blu-ray option which simply wasn't going to happen.
Worst of all these slow mediums with moving parts take up a 25% of the internal space in the 13" MBP while also require they be placed along the edge of a machine where port side real estate is greatly needed.
Expect the ODD to be removed in the next case revision of the MBP ports on both sides of the machine, at the back vis-Ã*-vis the MBA.
Yes, it's good advice to create your backup before you install Lion as it does delete the installer? however you can always re-download the 3.5GB installer again by going into the Mac App Store, clicking on Purchases from the tab bar then, whilst continuing to hold down the Option Key, clicking on Mac OS X Lion and then Install. Note: you'll know you did it correctly because it will say Install instead of Installed.
First time I have seen this tip, and it rounds off the recovery options nicely - thanks, I just tried it, and it works.
With this, I defy anyone to come up with a reasoned argument against the fact that there is simply no easier OS to install, full stop. There are so many ways of doing it in any way that tickles your fancy. All of them simple, and consistent regardless of your hardware.
First time I have seen this tip, and it rounds off the recovery options nicely - thanks, I just tried it, and it works.
With this, I defy anyone to come up with a reasoned argument against the fact that there is simply no easier OS to install, full stop. There are so many ways of doing it in any way that tickles your fancy. All of them simple, and consistent regardless of your hardware.
I was a developer using the Previews. I had plenty of download issues which required me to contact Apple and get a new Redeem Code. After the release of Lion I figured it would be inefficient and pointless to issue redeem codes for every Mac App Store Lion user considering they don't care about the number of activations per account so I simply looked for a built-in solution. I don't expect anyone to automatically know this solution, it's certainly not obvious, but knowing Apple I knew they likely built-in a simple fail safe. By comparison DFU mode for the iPhone is more complex to execute.
I have noticed in a number of threads (indeed I have been on the end of one of them) that Tallest provides the bare minimum of information in order to suggest that he has the knowledge, and when someone who isn't tuned into his psychic frequency has the temerity to ask for clarification he shoots them down like some sort of dumb moron.
Know what? I do apologize for that. Seriously. I guess I really do have to get off this kick of thinking that people are smart enough to research stuff on their own. I've been fighting it for years and nothing's changing.
In the future, I'm going to have to accept that some people care enough to ask questions but don't care enough to find out the answer. That just goes against how I was raised, so my replies tend to be, what, sharper than they should be, I guess.
Again, I am sorry. This isn't meant as a joke at all, though it's possible to read it as one.
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Originally Posted by Twelve
The USB drives are read-only. They're as safe as a CD-ROM would be, just faster and less easy to break. Extremely high security US agencies are allowing their use although they can not be transported into a SCIF without special screening. Similarly, a CD-ROM could be a CD-RW and nobody would know the difference unless such media were specially screened.
The safest thing for our country would be write-only drives.
So for organisations that have computers isolated from the internet and who prohibit USB thumb drives for security reasons still don't have a way to upgrade.
....
Can do it from their local Apple Store. Just bring your storage.
Maybe I have this wrong, I downloaded Lion the day it came out. I then promptly put that download onto a dvd. The next move was to make from that a Bootable Lion DVD. After that I tested this DVD I had made to make sure it did in fact boot my Mac. It did and I went through the opening steps of installation, all went fine. Now as I normally wait until Apple releases the first revision/upgrade of a new OS I stopped short of actual installation.
Question -- If I have a Bootable DVD Why would I need a Thumb drive ?
Well to prove it to myself I went out and got a suitable USB Drive 8 Gig.
Cloned the Bootable DVD I had made onto the USB thumb drive. Using CCC
Bingo now I can boot from the Thumb Drive and all else is the same.
By the way one really has to watch the USB drive formatting. 1 Partition GUID
Maybe I have this wrong, I downloaded Lion the day it came out. I then promptly put that download onto a dvd. The next move was to make from that a Bootable Lion DVD. After that I tested this DVD I had made to make sure it did in fact boot my Mac. It did and I went through the opening steps of installation, all went fine. Now as I normally wait until Apple releases the first revision/upgrade of a new OS I stopped short of actual installation.
Question -- If I have a Bootable DVD Why would I need a Thumb drive ?
Well to prove it to myself I went out and got a suitable USB Drive 8 Gig.
Cloned the Bootable DVD I had made onto the USB thumb drive. Using CCC
Bingo now I can boot from the Thumb Drive and all else is the same.
By the way one really has to watch the USB drive formatting. 1 Partition GUID
I think I may have saved myself $69.
It may be interesting to see if this catches on
Like you I created an installable bootable USB thumb drive. If you have a DVD there is no reason you also need a USB variety, but if you have tried to use both you know which one is preferable, right? Three reasons - speed, sped and speed. As more and more Macs come without optical drives the USB way is a better choice.
Like you I created an installable bootable USB thumb drive. If you have a DVD there is no reason you also need a USB variety, but if you have tried to use both you know which one is preferable, right? Three reasons - speed, sped and speed. As more and more Macs come without optical drives the USB way is a better choice.
Yes you are correct, but why would Apple not put this up somewhere for others to use. But I guess $69. times a few million is a lot of money.
It seems that the Lion USB Thumb Drive would be priced higher because it is not tied to an App Store account, so the potential for casual piracy is higher. Although I doubt this would have any impact on anyone determined to pass it around, since burning your own thumb drive from the App Store download is easy enough.
I suspect that's correct, although "bad folks" who intend to pass out many copies of the OS (why bother anymore?!) certainly would not want to have their personal information attached to the version being distributed.
I will be buying a USB drive because I do not want a fricking AppleID linked with my personal info on my computer. Nor do I want to provide Apple any means of tracking my behavior or my computer (there are many ways this happens, most benign, but it's all too invasive for my taste). Apple is nowhere near as bad as Google, but their fingers are getting deeper into our personal affairs and I'm quite happy to step into my local Apple store with $69 cash to stay out of any tracking or profiling. $69 is much cheaper than Windows, or most previous versions of MacOS.
Oh, and what the hell is up with people preferring to re-download an OS for recovery, rather than just grabbing a physical USB drive and plugging it in?! Downloading is sloooow compared with sucking off a USB drive. Are people so absent minded they can't remember where they keep their physical OS media? I don't get it.
So for organisations that have computers isolated from the internet and who prohibit USB thumb drives for security reasons still don't have a way to upgrade.
Of course Apple needs to engage more with such organisations to get more Macs into them in the first place.
Oh now people are just making up problems without even thinking if they exist. How many organizations will absolutely not allow you to use a USB stick, but have no problem with you upgrading the OS at will?
Generally organizations frown on letting their employees upgrading the OS themselves. And if they do allow it, they'll certainly allow them to use a USB stick to do it.
If you buy the thumb drive, you get the entire OS on the drive. No need to access the Internet in order to install.
If you use the recovery partition, the OS is downloaded from the Internet - which can take a long time if you have a slow connection.
Fair enough, but then again, you can do a complete install, and then just clone your disk onto a bootable USB stick. A clean install of Lion will easily fit on a 16GB USB stick. Or you can boot with the recovery partition and restore from Time Machine, a cloned drive, etc.
It is not obvious from Mac app store offering that the download can be used to create an installer on a removable disk. How would you sort out the licensing in a large business, given that the Mac app store licences for an Apple account holder for all the computers in the same house?
Oh now people are just making up problems without even thinking if they exist. How many organizations will absolutely not allow you to use a USB stick, but have no problem with you upgrading the OS at will?
Generally organizations frown on letting their employees upgrading the OS themselves. And if they do allow it, they'll certainly allow them to use a USB stick to do it.
Know what? I do apologize for that. Seriously. I guess I really do have to get off this kick of thinking that people are smart enough to research stuff on their own. I've been fighting it for years and nothing's changing.
In the future, I'm going to have to accept that some people care enough to ask questions but don't care enough to find out the answer. That just goes against how I was raised, so my replies tend to be, what, sharper than they should be, I guess.
Again, I am sorry. This isn't meant as a joke at all, though it's possible to read it as one.
It's not about whether people can work out things for themselves, the forums aren't a service for people to go for help and advice, they are there for discussion, chat, a bit of banter and the sort of help that you might offer where where you can without needing to get on your high horse.
In this thread someone replied to one of your comments and said "There is an application from apple that allows you to make your own USB after buying Lion from the app store." to which you replied "Never said there wasn't". That person wasn't disagreeing with you, wasn't putting you down, wasn't doing anything other than adding to the conversation, and it was the first time in the discussion that the recovery tool had been brought up. But you managed to turn that into a personal slight.
Someone followed up the comment with "Why not share with us what it is called and where we can find it?", which was a bit rude to be fair, something like "I didn't know that, can you tell me more" might have been better, but you then reply to that with nothing more than a cropped screenshot with nothing more than an Icon and the name underneath, which adds precious little to the conversation. For good measure, you throw in an insult telling someone to stop posting and calling them a fool.
Then someone calls you out on your attitude.
Now, you can defend this all you like with your "people are too stupid to research things for themselves", but the primary issue is one of attitude, not knowledge. No-one asked anyone to do anything for them because they couldn't be bothered, or were too stupid, but you seem to be above joining in in a social manner and merely want to promote your lofty ideals on how everyone should post in a way that meets your own exacting standards which you don;t even adhere to yourself.
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The options you mentioned do require internet access but, as I previously mentioned in this thread, you can create a full bootable and installable version of Lion from the App Store download just using Disk Utility and any mountable media that has a 4GB partition.
that probably just answered my question too
ok, I have a question. We have two macbooks, and one imac.
one of the macbooks was in for some service at apple and they upgraded it to snow leopard for free.
the other macbook and the imac, still have leopard (they were never upgraded)
so the ? is, if i download Lion on the Snow Leopard machine, and make a boot DVD as mentioned, can I use that to install Lion on the other two macs as well?
Absolutely, but for the easiest method (creation of a boot and install DVD that includes everything, not just recovery tools) remember to make your disc BEFORE running the Lion installer, as you need this to create the disk, and it deletes itself after install, and won;t download again as it will say it is already installed.
The options you mentioned do require internet access but, as I previously mentioned in this thread, you can create a full bootable and installable version of Lion from the App Store download just using Disk Utility and any mountable media that has a 4GB partition.
This - only remember you only get once to do this, once you have installed Lion the package frill you downloaded it deleted and you can only redownload it from a Snow Leopard system again. However, burn it as your first task, and you have an installer disc that works in every conceivable way just like your Snow Leopard DVD media, no internets required.
Absolutely, but for the easiest method (creation of a boot and install DVD that includes everything, not just recovery tools) remember to make your disc BEFORE running the Lion installer, as you need this to create the disk, and it deletes itself after install, and won;t download again as it will say it is already installed.
Yes, it's good advice to create your backup before you install Lion as it does delete the installer… however you can always re-download the 3.5GB installer again by going into the Mac App Store, clicking on Purchases from the tab bar then, whilst continuing to hold down the Option Key, clicking on Mac OS X Lion and then Install. Note: you'll know you did it correctly because it will say Install instead of Installed.
Absolutely, but for the easiest method (creation of a boot and install DVD that includes everything, not just recovery tools) remember to make your disc BEFORE running the Lion installer, as you need this to create the disk, and it deletes itself after install, and won;t download again as it will say it is already installed.
There may be a way after you have installed Lion - if you are lucky. It could be in Time Machine, or in the comments in the linked article someone found it stashed away in a Lost and Found folder after he had installed it on his machine.
Anyway - there are a few important steps that need to be taken to create a usable USB Bootable drive. I post this link again...
How to make a bootable Lion install disc or drive
Downloading Lion from the App Store and burning the internal DMG file onto a thumb drive seems to be the closest thing to an official Lion USB Thumb Drive.
It seems that the Lion USB Thumb Drive would be priced higher because it is not tied to an App Store account, so the potential for casual piracy is higher. Although I doubt this would have any impact on anyone determined to pass it around, since burning your own thumb drive from the App Store download is easy enough.
I am a bit surprised that Apple doesn't include a one-time Apple Store redemption code with the USB key (similar to the "up to date" program) so that the purchaser can tie the Lion USB purchase to one App Store account for future media-less recovery.
As an aside, I think Apple discontinued the install DVD because the experience is TERRIBLE. Lion installer must literally boot up a version of the full OS core and then copy over the files, because it takes forever to boot the installer from DVD.
As an aside, I think Apple discontinued the install DVD because the experience is TERRIBLE. Lion installer must literally boot up a version of the full OS core and then copy over the files, because it takes forever to boot the installer from DVD.
Optical drives are slow and optical media are inherently more prone to damage due to their unprotected design, but the reason Apple moved away from DVDs is that they are moving away from ODD (optical disc drives). The MBAs are a huge success, three out of 4 Macs are notebooks, and even the new Mac mini Â? a desktop*Â? doesn't have an ODD.
On top of that, the ODD haven't increased in capacity or speed for the svelte 9.5mm ultra-slim slot-loading drives Apple requires short of going with a $500+ Blu-ray option which simply wasn't going to happen.
Worst of all these slow mediums with moving parts take up a 25% of the internal space in the 13" MBP while also require they be placed along the edge of a machine where port side real estate is greatly needed.
Expect the ODD to be removed in the next case revision of the MBP ports on both sides of the machine, at the back vis-Ã*-vis the MBA.
Yes, it's good advice to create your backup before you install Lion as it does delete the installer? however you can always re-download the 3.5GB installer again by going into the Mac App Store, clicking on Purchases from the tab bar then, whilst continuing to hold down the Option Key, clicking on Mac OS X Lion and then Install. Note: you'll know you did it correctly because it will say Install instead of Installed.
First time I have seen this tip, and it rounds off the recovery options nicely - thanks, I just tried it, and it works.
With this, I defy anyone to come up with a reasoned argument against the fact that there is simply no easier OS to install, full stop. There are so many ways of doing it in any way that tickles your fancy. All of them simple, and consistent regardless of your hardware.
First time I have seen this tip, and it rounds off the recovery options nicely - thanks, I just tried it, and it works.
With this, I defy anyone to come up with a reasoned argument against the fact that there is simply no easier OS to install, full stop. There are so many ways of doing it in any way that tickles your fancy. All of them simple, and consistent regardless of your hardware.
I was a developer using the Previews. I had plenty of download issues which required me to contact Apple and get a new Redeem Code. After the release of Lion I figured it would be inefficient and pointless to issue redeem codes for every Mac App Store Lion user considering they don't care about the number of activations per account so I simply looked for a built-in solution. I don't expect anyone to automatically know this solution, it's certainly not obvious, but knowing Apple I knew they likely built-in a simple fail safe. By comparison DFU mode for the iPhone is more complex to execute.
I have noticed in a number of threads (indeed I have been on the end of one of them) that Tallest provides the bare minimum of information in order to suggest that he has the knowledge, and when someone who isn't tuned into his psychic frequency has the temerity to ask for clarification he shoots them down like some sort of dumb moron.
Know what? I do apologize for that. Seriously. I guess I really do have to get off this kick of thinking that people are smart enough to research stuff on their own. I've been fighting it for years and nothing's changing.
In the future, I'm going to have to accept that some people care enough to ask questions but don't care enough to find out the answer. That just goes against how I was raised, so my replies tend to be, what, sharper than they should be, I guess.
Again, I am sorry. This isn't meant as a joke at all, though it's possible to read it as one.
The USB drives are read-only. They're as safe as a CD-ROM would be, just faster and less easy to break. Extremely high security US agencies are allowing their use although they can not be transported into a SCIF without special screening. Similarly, a CD-ROM could be a CD-RW and nobody would know the difference unless such media were specially screened.
The safest thing for our country would be write-only drives.
So for organisations that have computers isolated from the internet and who prohibit USB thumb drives for security reasons still don't have a way to upgrade.
....
Can do it from their local Apple Store. Just bring your storage.
Question -- If I have a Bootable DVD Why would I need a Thumb drive ?
Well to prove it to myself I went out and got a suitable USB Drive 8 Gig.
Cloned the Bootable DVD I had made onto the USB thumb drive. Using CCC
Bingo now I can boot from the Thumb Drive and all else is the same.
By the way one really has to watch the USB drive formatting. 1 Partition GUID
I think I may have saved myself $69.
It may be interesting to see if this catches on
Maybe I have this wrong, I downloaded Lion the day it came out. I then promptly put that download onto a dvd. The next move was to make from that a Bootable Lion DVD. After that I tested this DVD I had made to make sure it did in fact boot my Mac. It did and I went through the opening steps of installation, all went fine. Now as I normally wait until Apple releases the first revision/upgrade of a new OS I stopped short of actual installation.
Question -- If I have a Bootable DVD Why would I need a Thumb drive ?
Well to prove it to myself I went out and got a suitable USB Drive 8 Gig.
Cloned the Bootable DVD I had made onto the USB thumb drive. Using CCC
Bingo now I can boot from the Thumb Drive and all else is the same.
By the way one really has to watch the USB drive formatting. 1 Partition GUID
I think I may have saved myself $69.
It may be interesting to see if this catches on
Like you I created an installable bootable USB thumb drive. If you have a DVD there is no reason you also need a USB variety, but if you have tried to use both you know which one is preferable, right? Three reasons - speed, sped and speed. As more and more Macs come without optical drives the USB way is a better choice.
Like you I created an installable bootable USB thumb drive. If you have a DVD there is no reason you also need a USB variety, but if you have tried to use both you know which one is preferable, right? Three reasons - speed, sped and speed. As more and more Macs come without optical drives the USB way is a better choice.
Yes you are correct, but why would Apple not put this up somewhere for others to use. But I guess $69. times a few million is a lot of money.
It seems that the Lion USB Thumb Drive would be priced higher because it is not tied to an App Store account, so the potential for casual piracy is higher. Although I doubt this would have any impact on anyone determined to pass it around, since burning your own thumb drive from the App Store download is easy enough.
I suspect that's correct, although "bad folks" who intend to pass out many copies of the OS (why bother anymore?!) certainly would not want to have their personal information attached to the version being distributed.
I will be buying a USB drive because I do not want a fricking AppleID linked with my personal info on my computer. Nor do I want to provide Apple any means of tracking my behavior or my computer (there are many ways this happens, most benign, but it's all too invasive for my taste). Apple is nowhere near as bad as Google, but their fingers are getting deeper into our personal affairs and I'm quite happy to step into my local Apple store with $69 cash to stay out of any tracking or profiling. $69 is much cheaper than Windows, or most previous versions of MacOS.
Oh, and what the hell is up with people preferring to re-download an OS for recovery, rather than just grabbing a physical USB drive and plugging it in?! Downloading is sloooow compared with sucking off a USB drive. Are people so absent minded they can't remember where they keep their physical OS media? I don't get it.
So for organisations that have computers isolated from the internet and who prohibit USB thumb drives for security reasons still don't have a way to upgrade.
Of course Apple needs to engage more with such organisations to get more Macs into them in the first place.
Oh now people are just making up problems without even thinking if they exist. How many organizations will absolutely not allow you to use a USB stick, but have no problem with you upgrading the OS at will?
Generally organizations frown on letting their employees upgrading the OS themselves. And if they do allow it, they'll certainly allow them to use a USB stick to do it.
To be fair, it's different.
If you buy the thumb drive, you get the entire OS on the drive. No need to access the Internet in order to install.
If you use the recovery partition, the OS is downloaded from the Internet - which can take a long time if you have a slow connection.
Fair enough, but then again, you can do a complete install, and then just clone your disk onto a bootable USB stick. A clean install of Lion will easily fit on a 16GB USB stick. Or you can boot with the recovery partition and restore from Time Machine, a cloned drive, etc.
Oh now people are just making up problems without even thinking if they exist. How many organizations will absolutely not allow you to use a USB stick, but have no problem with you upgrading the OS at will?
Generally organizations frown on letting their employees upgrading the OS themselves. And if they do allow it, they'll certainly allow them to use a USB stick to do it.
Your experience may be narrower than you think.
Know what? I do apologize for that. Seriously. I guess I really do have to get off this kick of thinking that people are smart enough to research stuff on their own. I've been fighting it for years and nothing's changing.
In the future, I'm going to have to accept that some people care enough to ask questions but don't care enough to find out the answer. That just goes against how I was raised, so my replies tend to be, what, sharper than they should be, I guess.
Again, I am sorry. This isn't meant as a joke at all, though it's possible to read it as one.
It's not about whether people can work out things for themselves, the forums aren't a service for people to go for help and advice, they are there for discussion, chat, a bit of banter and the sort of help that you might offer where where you can without needing to get on your high horse.
In this thread someone replied to one of your comments and said "There is an application from apple that allows you to make your own USB after buying Lion from the app store." to which you replied "Never said there wasn't". That person wasn't disagreeing with you, wasn't putting you down, wasn't doing anything other than adding to the conversation, and it was the first time in the discussion that the recovery tool had been brought up. But you managed to turn that into a personal slight.
Someone followed up the comment with "Why not share with us what it is called and where we can find it?", which was a bit rude to be fair, something like "I didn't know that, can you tell me more" might have been better, but you then reply to that with nothing more than a cropped screenshot with nothing more than an Icon and the name underneath, which adds precious little to the conversation. For good measure, you throw in an insult telling someone to stop posting and calling them a fool.
Then someone calls you out on your attitude.
Now, you can defend this all you like with your "people are too stupid to research things for themselves", but the primary issue is one of attitude, not knowledge. No-one asked anyone to do anything for them because they couldn't be bothered, or were too stupid, but you seem to be above joining in in a social manner and merely want to promote your lofty ideals on how everyone should post in a way that meets your own exacting standards which you don;t even adhere to yourself.
Just my 2p.