Dne, 23. 11. 2009 00:44:40 je S. Fishpaste napisal(a): > Someone mentioned the sheer volume of information that is often > available to > the Debian user. I can see how it's intimidating and confusing to the > casual > user as it is to even those of us that consider themselves perhaps a > little > more experienced but still learning non-the-less. >
Precisely. The trouble with the standard "RTFM" or "Google is your friend" answers is that, if you follow them to the letter, you'll find not one but, say, half a dozen different infos/posts/howtos that will appear as potential solutions to a casual user. Of course, one of those will not work in Lenny because it was Etch-specific, another will not work for, say, a DHCP-networked computer with NetworkManager, but only for static-IP machines, or vice versa, and so on. Problem is that, as a newbie, you won't know that in advance. You'll proceed by trial and error. (There's also the possibility that your issue is simply a brand new glitch/bug that hasn't made it to the various bug trackers yet, so all your research won't help you zilch.) Once a typical newbie has tried out all those suggestions and discovered that they don't work -- and even if he discovered that some actually do work -- he will have modified so many parts of his Debian install, that it may well be messed up. Which, for a complete newbie, may virtually spell "messed up *beyond repair*". All a newbie or a casual user can do is change his attitude: start considering these obstacles/challenges not as "pitfalls", but as "opportunities to learn". Life's not perfect, but it's perfectible. To a degree. Sometimes. -- Regards, Klistvud Certifiable Loonix User #481801 http://bufferoverflow.tiddlyspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
