On Wed, 2012-09-12 at 02:10 +0200, lee wrote: > I've seen not totally clueless windoze users sitting with me in front > of their computer, looking at the Debian installer and asking me "How > do you know which keys to press?". It's a totally valid question. I > just know which keys to press, the clueless user doesn't. How are they > supposed to know?
A friend, a Mac user, ones was amazed how fast I'm able to type and that I understand what I do, using a terminal emulation. I simply was file browsing, cd, ls, cat, grep etc.. I'm accustomed to this workflow, that's all. OTOH I like GUI file browsers, but it's often time consuming to set up those monsters. Often I browse through directories using the mouse and a GUI file browser and than copy etc. by the terminal emulation, because I don't remember shortcuts to split the window of the GUI monster. > People believe that they can solve problems they have with windoze and > don't believe they can solve problems they have with Linux, and they > believe they don't have problems when they have a Mac. I know people who know that they can't solve problems with Linux, because they don't have that much time and they tested Linux. The friend with the Mac switched to Windows, regarding to all the issues that ship with a Mac. I know many clueless people using Windows, because they know many people who are able to help them. I always recommend to install Linux, because my knowledge about Windows is out of date. But they simply know more people with knowledge abut Windows and btw. until now I always was able to help, because their issues with Windows are simple to solve, even without knowledge about Windows. Their problems often are general issues, that come with using computers, e.g. loose SATA cables, explanation that the providers server is down. Regards, Ralf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1347475605.1250.149.camel@localhost.localdomain
