GrokDoc Goes Live; All GNU/Linux Newbies Welcome

An anonymous reader writes "Writing at LinuxWorld, Groklaw's PJ asks "What Do Newbies Need to Make the Switch to GNU/Linux? and invites the world - literally - to help with answering the question, by participating in the wiki she and some colleagues have just launched. GrokDoc aims to turn the usual process on its head: "Instead of experts telling newbies how to do things, we will let newbies show and tell us what they need." Might be a fantastic way to help push Linux still further toward that fabled tipping-point."

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You, sir, are a TROLL.

[Saeed al-Sahaf]

The very fact that linux needs sites like this just to get newbies up and running speaks volumes. Don't try and cover up the symptoms, but get to the cause.

You are a troll.

I use Windows for many things; things I prefer to use on Windows, and things my employer insists I use on Windows. The truth is that once you get past web surfing, email (and setting up Outlook on a large system is not always so easy either), and downloading music and movies you don't own, many of the more advanced tasks do take a bit of reserch.

By the way, I bought RH8 and later downloaded RH9, and used the (quite nice) GUI to install both of them, and they functioned fine out-of-the-box with no problems at all, no secret little "guru" tricks to get things working, no hair-pulling to get basic apps working (net surfing, word processing, basic office functionality, burning CDs, and so on). So, what's YOUR problem?

Re:Wikis suck for technical documentation.

[phrasebook]

What are wikis good for anyway? Whenever I see a wiki I automatically select some text and delete it and save the changes, or type in some random crap. I just can't help myself! Do my changes actually get saved or what? It's weird. I've never bothered to find out what the point of a wiki is meant to be. And you can't even seem to have SPACES anywhere, you've gotta have ThisIsATopic or This-Topic. Wikis suck!