Comment Re:Its about time... (Score 1) 84
I am a die hard linux user myself, but like everything you do, there is always a starting point and at some time or another, everyone is a noob. One major thing I noticed from myself and just about everyone else out there is patience. If you want to know how to do the small things and how to use basic functions on the cli you must begin at that level. You cannot just expect to jump in and complete tasks that are on a level 5 complication [for example] when you don't have the basic level 2 skills. Attempting such just sets yourself up for failure because just like you mentioned, the first time something doesn't go as pefectly prepared as hoped in the "howto" you're lost and don't know your @ss from a hole in the ground.
If you want to know how to do things that " the Linux guru" would do, then start out from the bottom and learn how and why things work, not just typing things from a howto and hoping they work.
Most people don't see it, but in all reality the majority of users don't think about how long it took them to become proficient in the Windows environment. For the majority of us, our experience started at some point young in school or at home. Even though you may not have been glued to it during school, you still had frequent encounters and accumilated experience. Many users expect to just be able to jump in head first and know it all because "it should have a GUI." Well Windows has a GUI and Linux at it's core, doesn't, that's because they are 2 seperate Operating Systems and aren't even supposed to be similar.
The entire battle comes down to if people are ready to completely let go of everything they know and start learning a new OS from scratch like they did many many years ago when they touched their first computer, and not try to argue why it isn't similar in functionality and use to the skills they already have from another OS such as Windows.
If you want to know how to do things that " the Linux guru" would do, then start out from the bottom and learn how and why things work, not just typing things from a howto and hoping they work.
Most people don't see it, but in all reality the majority of users don't think about how long it took them to become proficient in the Windows environment. For the majority of us, our experience started at some point young in school or at home. Even though you may not have been glued to it during school, you still had frequent encounters and accumilated experience. Many users expect to just be able to jump in head first and know it all because "it should have a GUI." Well Windows has a GUI and Linux at it's core, doesn't, that's because they are 2 seperate Operating Systems and aren't even supposed to be similar.
The entire battle comes down to if people are ready to completely let go of everything they know and start learning a new OS from scratch like they did many many years ago when they touched their first computer, and not try to argue why it isn't similar in functionality and use to the skills they already have from another OS such as Windows.
