Re:Newbies and documentation? Useless. (Score 1)

I fully agree that people on the whole are impatient and lazy when it comes to reading documentation. But for now, it's a fundamental skill if one can expect to be successful with Linux.

I can safely classify myself as a Linux newbie, but I've known from the start that the majority of the answers to questions I have lies at LDP. I've waded though a buttload of documentation -- most of it useful, some truely helpful and some truely useless.

If I have learned anything through it, it would be the fact that finding answers in Linux documentation takes some skills. Clearly, one has to understand the difference between a HOWTO, a Mini-HOWTO, a guide and a man page, and the scope of the information in each - sounds like HOWTO is in order for this? *half kidding*.

I don't know what the answer is for newbies without the patience to RTFM. I get frustrated by the lazy "hold my hand" approach of some newbies, but I try not to give them attitude.

Sometimes the road to world domination is long and arduous. We'll get there.