Quoting Muddy Banks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > It might as well be called "linux newbie admins/developers" since > that, up to recently, is what your typical Linux user was/is.
Again: Do they have corporate IT / MIS departments to go to? If so, they should. If not, then they _are now sysadmins_. I find amusing the pretense that they aren't. Given a choice between helping someone willing to learn about his system and someone who "just wants to play MP3s" and refuses to learn, I'll do the former, every time. It's a great deal more gratifying, for many reasons including the knowledge that the user won't be back with an almost identical question a few minutes later. Your mileage may differ. > No that your efforts go unappreciated, but do you automatically try to > solve problems by running the shell or do you look for a friendlier > GUI approach to the problem? I collect rhetorical questions as a hobby. Thank you for the contribution. I'm also enough of a spoilsport to answer them: I solve problems through whatever means gives the most reliable, universal results. That often entails a preference for portable, simple tools that give meaningful and deterministic feedback, and that can be relied upon to be present across a very wide range of systems. But you knew that before you asked, right? > Shouldn't there be a forum for people who are interested in using the > Linux but have absolutely no interest in 99% of the questions in the > newbie list but may be interested other aspects of the OS? You seem to have a great deal of energy and enthusiasm: What's stopping you from creating and staffing such a forum? -- Cheers, "Reality is not optional." Rick Moen -- Thomas Sowell [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fully Searchable Archives With Friendly Web Interface at http://marc.free.net.ph To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
