Re: Dumb question of the week.
- From: houghi <houghi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2008 23:31:54 +0100
Theo v. Werkhoven wrote:
That bare minimum is readily available all over the net.
Indeed it is. Unfortunatly it is not always clear where to look and what
is relevant, untill you have the solution.
It's just a matter (for the newby) of putting in a little bit of effort
to find the basics and put those in perspective. The rest follows with
experimenting, discussions and more reading about specific subjects.
I disagree with the 'little bit' and 'just'.
Not to sound really old, but 14 years ago (my Linux birthday), the
Internet was totally different from now, and information was not as
nearly as easy to find as it is now, so if "we" were able to get Linux
up and running then, the newbies should have absolutely no problem now.
And here you make the mistke many people make. The people who started 14
years ago on the Internet (let alone with Linux) are not the same sort
of people that start now. People starting then where the 'geeks',
'nerds' and people who where into computers already.
People now joining are end-users. So there is a different profile to
answer to.
Btw: my first Linux I must have re-installed at least half a dozen times
in a month time before I got the hang of (manual) partitioning, manually
choosing all of the packages (no idea what the hell I was doing the
first couple of times), getting X up (also manually), making dip scripts
for my 14k4 modem and a thousand little nags that we now take for
granted to "just work", but didn't do so then.
Great and I asume you had a great time doing that and learning from it.
The reason you did that was because you liked doing it. Now there are
people who like using it, without knowing exactly how. Some will start
learning more, most won't.
I know how to drive a car, but I no nothing of the mechanics, nor do I
want to.
Some folks learn thata minimum by going off and reading manuals.
Others just experiment. And some ask questions.
A combination of all of the above works best imo.
It depends on the person. I can not learn from reading.
This is not "our" problem though, it's a rite of passage as far as I'm
concerned, the "good" lot survives to strenghten the community, and the
"weak" go back to their scapegoat.
And here we differ. I welcome mere users. You welcome only the elite.
Wether they want to become more then a user is up to them, not to me. To
me the way to get more people working for Linux, as oposed with, it by
having as much people join.
If you make the learning curve too steep, you scare away potential.
houghi
--
If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and
Gomorrah an apology.
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