On Wednesday 05 September 2001 20:13 pm, Clint Tinsley wrote:
But isn't the point here the need for the FAQ, even for a "newbie," that they might have to get to a system prompt and type such a commmand to "fix" the CD player, even if it is terminal window inside the GUI. The "end user" you refer to here doesn't exist in the land of Linux to my knowledge, having gotten stuck at the Start menu in Windows and then pulling the plug on the komputur out of frustration.
There is *also* a need for a FAQ such as you describe... but I think the two levels of users need to have different levels of FAQ's. To do it all in one would make it too big and too complex. And I *do* think there are end users for linux, and there might be a lot more if there was some good documentation for them to ease into it. There are lots of 'Linux for Dummies' style books and sites like linuxnewbie.org but they are all about the level of the expertise of the typical office worker, who uses windows to send email and write documents but doesn't normally install hardware or software. And most don't want to. I'm shooting for that person. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 09/05/01 21:44 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ Silverman's Paradox: "If Murphy's law can go wrong, it will."