Wal-Mart shipping PCs with Lindows preinstalled
Tia Haenni
thaenni at kc.rr.com
Tue Jun 18 21:03:56 CDT 2002
I totally agree. I am what you would term a newbie to Linux and everyone here has to admit that
there was a time when they, too, were not infinitely knowledgeable on Linux or Windows or any other
OS for that matter. I admit that most of what is discussed here regarding Linux goes over my head,
but does that mean that I can't comprehend topics and become somewhat of an expert myself? Of
course not. A condescending attitude towards those who are less knowledgeable than yourself only
breeds the kind of contempt that many hold for the folks at M$.
On 6/18/2002 2:59 PM, \"GodfatherofSoul\" Bellamy <mbellamy at kc.rr.com> wrote:
>I think this is a very dangerous attitude to have towards newbies.
>
> Linux elitism breeds contempt for ease-of-use which leads to neglect
>
>for features which make it easier for the newbs to adopt Linux.
> Lack
>of fresh blood leads to death. We've got to be encouraging everyone
>we
>can to use Linux, even the friendlier distros.
>
>A stretched analogy for you, I was a big time Netrek player back
>in the
>heydays. There's some pretty complicated strategy for such a simple
>
>program, but after a while the experienced players would get annoyed
>
>with mistakes and persist in flaming the newbies every time the screwed
>
>up. The newbies started getting discouraged and stopped playing.
> Now,
>Netrek is a dinosaur of a network game and hasn't gone through any
>
>considerable upgrade in years as the player population has dwindled.
>
> There's only one trafficked server now, as far as I know. A bit
>more
>dreary a future that Linux will ever have, but it doesn't take mch
>to
>get going down that path.
>
>Teach.
>
>atechsol.net wrote:
>
>>Hang out in my chat room, you'll see it daily. The wonders of mandrake
>is it seems to attract the most clueless newbies.
>>Clueless to linux, clueless to maners, clueless to pretty much everything.
> I've seen some give up, I've seen some excel.
>>I've seen some crash bang hack and reboot their way into a machine
>more broken than I've ever produced in _any_ OS.
>>(They dont call me crash for nothing.) When a user joins my room
>and asks 'how do I start windows' after a few minutes of teasing
>them we inform them to call it atleast X windows if not XFree86 and
>kindly tell them to 'startx/Xtart/X' whatever the choice of said
>person may be. With proper support and not-so-broken releases linux
>can go a really long way.
>>
>>>Of course. But right now thier friend can't tell them that they
>got screwed
>>>into buying a "non-compatible" operating system. A retarded monkey
>can run
>>>windows. Maybe it's just my ego but I like to think that Linux
>takes some
>>>brains. Think of all those clueless Windows users the first time
>thier
>>>machine boots to runlevel 3 instead of 5.
>>>
>>>Aaron
>>>
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