Kiddo,
before you even start THINKING about running linux, you must be well aware that
it's a pretty hard OS to master for those with absolutely no technical
background. Linux is an operating system that tries to hide nothing for the
user, unlike MS Windows. If you have no basic understanding of how a computer
works, and I don't mean knowing your way around in WordPerfect or something like
that, I mean: how a computer works internally, well, if you don't have a basic
understanding about that, then linux is not for you. Also, what's that stupid
remark about "too much technical jargon" anyway? This is a hacker's OS, what did
you expect? If it's too technical for you, well... Nobody forces you to run it.
What pisses me off the most is people who don't even know how to upgrade their
graphics card, insist on running linux because they heard some hype about it,
and then get all frustrated when it's not as easy as baking an egg.
Also, nobody cares to read manuals anymore. Everybody on this list claims to
have read all the apropriate manuals/docs, but found nothing, so they ask here.
And then they expect us "guru's" to solve their problems. Meanwhile the thing
they're asking is usually explained in detail somewhere between the second and
seventh paragraph in the man-page of the program that's causing them trouble.
But that means they have to type in "man rpm" or something, and that's too
hard. I wonder what the heck makes people decide to run linux anyway, if reading
some documentation is too hard, or too much to ask?
I for one don't even bother answering questions to which the answers are
trivial, or easy to look up. I have enough work looking up the solutions to my
own problems.
Kit: "noone wants to help..." Now let's say you sell your car. Someone comes
over and buys it. Then a week later he's at your door again. "How do I shift up
or down?" --> "Manual page 15 and where the heck did you get your driver's
license?" Then 3 days later he comes back "And how about reverse, does my car
have one?" --> "Still manual page 15, and of course it has one, you moron!" Then
4 days later he comes back "How do I turn on the radio?" --> "Explained on page
4 in the radio manual. Never seen an on/off swicth before?" Then a few days
later "I heard rumours that you can slide the seat to the front or back so you
can reach the pedals better. Is that true? Is it worth the effort? Won't it
degrade the lateral tire-pressure? My feet won't get stuck in the engine, will
they?"
I think you'd grabbed a big gun by the third time the dude comes over, shot the
bastard trough the head, hid the body, and sold the car again. This time to
someone with an IQ higher than that of a carrot.
On Mar 13 Kit wrote:
> BOY, I agree...with you BIGTIME...noone wants to help...they just
> want to
> tell you to go somewhere and read...well, thats what I've been
> doing...and doing
> and doing...but it still does no good...most all tutorials are
> very poorly written.
> they use too much technical jargon...they don't remember that
> HELP means you must
> help them on the persons level of understanding...if they had
> technical knowlegdge,
> they wouldn't be asking questions...they would of fix their own
> problem...man, what
> a bunch of dum people...for knowing so much as they do...
>
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