On Sunday 05 Jan 2003 6:17 pm, Damian Gatabria wrote: > On Sunday 05 January 2003 19:18, you wrote: > > Damian, HOW did you get to the point in your Linux experince that you > > found out he answer to Walt's question? > > What are good ways to learn this stuff to get to the point of helping > > others? Keith > > Hi. > > Well, i don't consider myself a very experienced Linux user yet, > as most of the posts i read here generate answers or comments > that often exceed my experience. > > I probably have a considerable amount of experience dealing > with the more "common" apps since this is the use i'm trying > to give to my computer. > > I live with my parents, and the occasional > visit from my sisters who might want to open an excell spreadsheet, > or a video file. > > Since my family is, of course, only familiar with Windows, my effort > to keep Linux installed on this computer has led me to the need > to make stuff as dumbed-down as possible. As an example, > one day i was asked "how do i copy a CD in Linux?".. After > making a swift attempt to explain superuser mode, cdrecord, > cdparanoia and whatnot, i ended up making an alias for it. Something > like: > alias burn-audio-cd="su;cd tmp;rm -rf ./*.wav;cdparanoia -B;cdrecord -audio > -v -dev=0,3,0 speed=12 ./*.wav" > > so my sister only had to open up a shell, type burn-audio-cd and enter > a password, and everything was done by itself. > Of course, all those parameters i used, (the actual fact of making the > alias itself) came from a lot of "man" reading, and simply trying to make > my computer work. > > I guess i do nothing special, just try to make my computer work > for me and my family, and in the meantime, i get to learn a lot about it. > > I dream about being able to use what i'm learning to help make a Linux > distribution (maybe help Mdk)... maybe someday in the future. Who knows. > > Damian
Hey - whatever works for you and yours. Personally I use lots of gui apps, not because they're dumbed down, particularly, but because I generally need to get a job done. I then try to learn all I can in between. BTW, I copy cds through xCDRoast - a gui app, and easy to learn. Anne
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