Linux experts do not want to be bothered with newbie questions! (was:Re: No noobs?)

[Geoffrey S. Mendelson]

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:21:11AM +0200, Shahar Dag wrote:

>- give an easy was for advanced users to select which questions to
> answer without having to subscribe to gnubies-il. this may help make
> Linux more popular among new users

Seriously, will it? There are times that reading this list makes Windows/XP
seem a lot easier to use. We tend to concentrate on the things that DON'T WORK
on Linux (and how to fix them), most of which will scare off new users.

Although this email is being written in MicroEmacs called by Mutt, on a 
Linux system, I don't like Linux desktops. The actual computer I'm sitting
at is a dual boot XP and a BSD variant (because I like the user interface).
To be honest, it has XP because it came with it, and I occasionaly have
to do things with it that can not be done anywhere else. I don't think I've
booted it in well over a week, but it is there.

I'm not sure that explaining that to a new user is really going to inspire
confidence, no matter who nicely it is put.

Geoff.


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Geoffrey S. Mendelson, Jerusalem, Israel gsm at mendelson.com  N3OWJ/4X1GM