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The Clueless Newbie's Linux Odyssey
overshoot writes "Just what we've always (said we) wanted: people who are fed up with Microsoft and are willing, even eager, to give Linux a real try. Well, she did. And did. And did some more. Not only that, she's a technical writer and she took notes. Not fun reading, but worth reading anyway."
Doesn't the side of a Linux Box state the Minimum IQ requirements alongside the CPU and memory requirements?
All kidding aside, she essentially tried installing it on some crap hardware without having an either net access to search the newsgroups for solutions or having the geek that gave her the distros on hand.
Another thing I would note is that the best technical writers are essentilly retarded monkeys. Nothing personal, but the best tech writers and testers are retarded monkeys.
"God fights on the side with the best artillery." - Napoleon, Marshal of France - speaking truth to power
Well, you shrieking geeks...Yea that was a nice intro.
.... She runs windows 95, and she thinks she is average?
...ok, im no genious here, but root can't get locked out of files. Really.
Before each installation, I deleted the Linux partitions from the drives and restored them to formatted FAT32... ah, fat drives very technical thing to do.
This is more of an experiment to see how ready Linux is for the average Windows-user than how it stacks up for my own migration to Linux.
I had well-known, mass-market video cards with chipsets that were allegedly supported, but getting a GUI to show up was never a sure thing....no comment....
Root gets locked out of files.
Ok, enough of her stupidity. This girl reminds me of Ellen Feiss, the girl from the Apple/Switch commmercials, whose computer ate her paper, so she had to write another, and it wasnt as good? (wasn't as good as that joint she smoked maybe) Cute, but dumb as a bag of hammers.
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
You are so full of shit it's coming out your ears.
"She runs windows 95, and thinks she is average?"
What's so un-average about windows 95? You think average is upgrading every new release? Plopping down a hundred dollars MS tax every other year? That standard for you?
On the shrieking geeks thing, well... It's dead on: the screaming pricks that make up slashdot deserve that.
Root problems? Root may not be able to, but an example: a file is set immutable, by something or other. Say the installer does it to protect dumb users or whatever. Who cares why it gets set that way. Now Joe Student comes along after his very first linux install, and is expected to know chattr -i to be able to access the file that some widget says he's having problems with?
And then you insult her: she wrote an honest critique of her experiances. Maybe she doesn't know the solutions; she shouldn't have to. At the least she is clearly an intelligent person that can write a hell of a lot better than you, and because she insults your favorite OS you go off the big one? Gimme a fscking break.
If people would at the least be polite and helpful, rather than insulting and condescending, everthing would be a lot better. Not to mention just writing software that isn't horribly, horribly broken.
Whatever. I'm tired of reading posts by pricks that can't take one whiff of honest criticism. Go smoke another with Ellen.
Actually, I am well under control. I just think it was a bad article, and said so, and every hard dick jumps to a ladies defense. No one ever acts this way if someone puts down an article unless its by a girl around here. Before you argue back, look back. I have.
I think its funny how sexist some of you are. Patronising. I think she is probably a big enough girl she can handle one person not liking her article.
Its a crappy article. Get over it.
Tequila: It's not just for breakfast anymore!
Zealots get up in arms at the blasphemy.
Some claim the user is technically incompetent.
The same "Linux for the world" crowd does a complete 180 and says Linux is only for developers.
In short, the Linux crowd cops out. Take your medicine, go back and do better. Not everyone is a developer so if you want to see Linux on the desktop, you'll have to start actually listening to normal users. If you can't, then you have just conceded that Microsoft will always write better desktop software than Linux.
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