[BadVista Advocate] Linux for Newbies

[Yasith Lahiru Vidanaarachchi]

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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> GoBoLinux
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