Man I wish I was able to mod you up. You hit that proverbial nail right on the head. They just don't understand that if they just got off their high horse and tried to help the millions of windows users out there to switch over, instead of hitting them over the head for using windows. They might actually make some headway.
I would have agreed with your point of not "picking up a manual and reading through hundreds of pages". But then our company decided to switch over to Linux from Windows 2000 and a Windows domain. It's a long hard process, but it's going well. If I wouldn't have had Running Linux there is a lot I would have been lost with. You have to remember, Linux newbies don't know what to really look for to learn. Yeah, installing your first system and messing around is good and all, but really checking out some good material helps out with things you just wouldn't have thought of.
The best part of reading Running Linux is I've actually learn things our resident Linux guru didn't know. Helped in some area we didn't expect me to help in. This is a guy that installed his first Linux system when he was around 13 on a 486 25sx, definitely knows his stuff.
So, no, books are definitely not the 100%, tride and true way to go, you have to get down to messing with the system, but still good idea to look around at people that are paid to teach us newbies.
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Man I wish I was able to mod you up. You hit that proverbial nail right on the head. They just don't understand that if they just got off their high horse and tried to help the millions of windows users out there to switch over, instead of hitting them over the head for using windows. They might actually make some headway.
I would have agreed with your point of not "picking up a manual and reading through hundreds of pages". But then our company decided to switch over to Linux from Windows 2000 and a Windows domain. It's a long hard process, but it's going well. If I wouldn't have had Running Linux there is a lot I would have been lost with. You have to remember, Linux newbies don't know what to really look for to learn. Yeah, installing your first system and messing around is good and all, but really checking out some good material helps out with things you just wouldn't have thought of.
The best part of reading Running Linux is I've actually learn things our resident Linux guru didn't know. Helped in some area we didn't expect me to help in. This is a guy that installed his first Linux system when he was around 13 on a 486 25sx, definitely knows his stuff.
So, no, books are definitely not the 100%, tride and true way to go, you have to get down to messing with the system, but still good idea to look around at people that are paid to teach us newbies.
As opposed to living in a country, where because of an accident of birth, you can become President even if you are a dunce!
Very true, I'm amazed that Bill actually got elected to 2 terms.