Agreed, but not a workable option in the case of someone new switching to GNU/Linux. Not enough people are interested in learning on their own by messing around with it. You have to give them a resource to use for their information. Something simple and straight forward. Telling them to mess around with it will make them upset and make them give up.
Jacob > Best way to come out of the newbie standard is to mess around with your > system :) > > On 7/8/07, Matthew Flaschen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> member greenarrow1 wrote: >> > Can you honestly say the Linux Documentation Project is written in the >> > way a Windows user just coming to Linux would understand? >> >> It isn't always written clearly. The solution is to improve it. >> >> > And, when searching for this how does the new Linux wannabe search >> for >> it? Its >> > not even on the first couple of pages if you search Linux newbie. >> >> Again, GNU/Linux newbies do not need or want distro-independent >> information. Once (if) they are no longer a newbie they will more >> easily understand LDP and similar information. >> >> Matthew FLaschen >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Advocate mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate >> > > > > -- > \ \ / /__ _ __ (_) | |_ | |_ > .\ V// _` |(_-< | || _| | ' \ > |_| \__,_|/__/ |_| \__||_||_| > http://tuxv.blogspot.com > 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 > Don't send me word attachments. > http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html > _______________________________________________ > Advocate mailing list > [email protected] > http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate > _______________________________________________ Advocate mailing list [email protected] http://badvista.fsf.org/mailman/listinfo/advocate
