Andrew Lentvorski wrote: > Carl Lowenstein wrote: > >> Have you been to an InstallFest recently? >> >> Nowadays, since Linux is so easy to install, the InstallFest customers >> seem to be about 20% new installations, and 80% people who have run >> into problems after installation. Sometimes fairly exotic and >> puzzling problems. > > No one said n00b problems were always *easy*. > > A n00b problem is just a problem that a n00b bumps into. >
I read the situation as newbies having more curiosity than problems. Or if not actually more, then a considerable amount. Newbies just want to do stuff [hey is that a good song title :-) ?]. The earliest days of microcomputer interest was in making anything work; nowadays, the interest is in doing something useful (or cool, maybe). Sure there are problems, but maybe that's just the visible part of the iceberg. Even if most may not search out or show up for traditional lecture style training (for lots of reasons which I can easily think of), I suspect that show-n-tell presentations are golden. I do think that the December Amarok presentation was an excellent example. [Thanks again, Judy.] These opinions probably need critique or amplification by those having a better newbie point of view. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
