[BadVista Advocate] Linux for Newbies

[Jacob Maynard]

Agreed. Since I'm not yet a developer, and I don't use IRC (attach a yet
to that), how do we get it to look aesthetically pleasing, and where can
we implement it? Hosting is the biggest thing I wonder about.

Jacob


> Back to the topic I think that an IRC channel is the _most_
> appropriate thing for newbies, because 'live' help is better than any
> article or blog or tutorial, because it is possible to actually ask
> questions rather than try to figure out what the person writhing the
> article/tutorial was trying to say :). I thing that there should be
> one major IRC channel for all distributions but it is important to
> make it well known for the public (like badvista.org is on the first
> page of googling "vista").
>
> Newbies will feel comfortable to know that whatever problem they have
> someone could help them solve it, rather than trying to search with
> google and find misleading / old / wrong information.
>
> It will be quite annoying to answer the same dumb questions over and
> over again but I thing that after time we can make a FAQ based on the
> asked questions and keep this FAQ as brief as possible, coz no newbie
> will search in a FAQ longer than one screen :)
>
> Iskren
>
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