[BadVista Advocate] Linux for Newbies

[Jacob Maynard]

I think that should be used in conjunction with it, but not a separate
entity. Take away the blogging and forums that other sites utilize and put
up flashy, good looking tutorials and the IRC channel in the page. That
would be great.

Jacob

> If we had that IRC channel we discussed earlier in this mailing list, it
> should have helped a lot. Some one would be able to find help directly
> from
> another user. What do you guys think?
>
> cheers
>
> On 7/9/07, member greenarrow1 <greenarrow1 at opensuse.us> wrote:
>>
>> On 7/8/07, Matthew Flaschen <matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu> wrote:
>> > Jacob Maynard wrote:
>> > > Agreed, but not a workable option in the case of someone new
>> switching
>> to
>> > > GNU/Linux. Not enough people are interested in learning on their own
>> by
>> > > messing around with it. You have to give them a resource to use for
>> their
>> > > information. Something simple and straight forward.
>> >
>> > I agree.  The most straight-forward way to start someone out is to
>> point
>> > them to a very detailed tutorial for installing a particular distro.
>> >
>> > Matt Flaschen
>> >
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>> And this is the area we are lacking in.  No one wants to open a
>> tutorial and read something that looks like it came from a engineering
>> programmer.  In teaching individuals that want to try or switch to
>> Linux I found that using "Show Me's" with written instructions work a
>> lot better than just words.  Words are dull to a newbie but if they
>> see a picture or illustration that tends to catch their eye.
>>
>> I could write a general Linux article, what to look for in Distro's,
>> how to search, the difference between a Window OS and a Linux distro,
>> etc but to get it to new users would be the problem.  I would need
>> screen shots of non-proprietary distros and actually others that do
>> not include proprietary in their base install.  I can say this even if
>> they use an all OpenSource distro if they want to play certain songs
>> or DVD's they are still going to find a way to install proprietary
>> code to use what they want.  This is one area people are not going to
>> give up and until we create programs that can do this within Linux we
>> are not going to be able to stop it.
>>
>> This is a area I have been talking to Google about and seeing if this
>> is a anti-trust violation.  It seems to me it is because Microsoft is
>> trying to lock all this in their windows base.  Being that codecs and
>> Dvd's are universal locking them into one operating system would be
>> monopolizing them.  So far looks good as they are gong to further
>> study this area.  I went the Google route because they are already
>> filing anti-trust violations against MS and even though it is like
>> using the lessor of 2 evils at least it is against MS.
>>
>>
>> George
>> greenarrow1
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