That's why the people doing the documentation should be the power-user who is not familiar with every intricate detail, and has had to struggle and learn the system. That is the person who can usually explain things in a matter that does not bore the general populace to tears. After all, if you're talking about getting a typical, home-user, windows-user to use Linux, you had better be talking at a "For Dummies" level. Which isn't anything against the windows person, it's just that Linux is allot more in touch with the hardware side than most users would want to be.
-----Original Message----- From: Colin Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 12:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Linux is not for consumers! On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 05:17:28PM +0000, Richard Kimber wrote: > On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 09:07:16 -0500 > "Robert L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're right. Too many consumers are too dumb for for Linux, > > especially Debian. It requires more than a room tempature IQ and > > the willingness to use it. > > This may be true of some; but even reasonably intelligent users with quite > a lot of experience can come unstuck in those areas with which they are > not familiar, simply because the documentation is often so poor. In many cases it will remain poor until people report what they found confusing about it - it's sometimes hard to document something you wrote in a way that somebody unfamiliar with it can understand. -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
