Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4237 mails)

[Johan Nielsen <yep@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Torsdag den 26. august 2004 23:16 skrev Danny Sauer:
> Johan wrote regarding 'Re: [SLE] The trouble converting from win to suse is 
the names' on Thu, Aug 26 at 16:00:
> > Torsdag den 26. august 2004 20:34 skrev Danny Sauer:
> > > The problem with a FAQ is the same as the problem with freshmeat.net,
> > > and with all of the other resources (like the docs found at ldp.org).
> > > Newbies don't know that they exist, so they don't find them.  I
> > > suppose there could be a weekly posting of a FAQ like on some lists,
> > > but then there'd be a whole bunch of those things archived (or another
> > > thing to keep track of for the archive/list admins - exceptions are
> > > always bad if they can be avoided).
> >
> > I disagree partly.
> >
> > The linux word should think more about how they made the learningcurve
> > less steep when we get beyond the desktop.
>
> What part do you disagree with?
>
They do know that the info is "around" on the net and install-media, but 
learning takes some effort besides ensuring enough oxygen to stay alive.

Many times things (Howto's/information about linux) get a little to "nerdy". 
2'ndly a lot misinterprete the community and 3'rdly some even missuse the 
nice people in the community (other linuxusers and SuSE from time to 
time .... but that's another story).


> --Danny, pretty sure that the windows registry and MacOS's BSD core have
> pretty steep learning curves, too - steeper than Linux "beyond the desktop"