On 24/06/11 22:07, alan c wrote:
On 24/06/11 17:21, Ronnie Tucker wrote:
How about a site/page where people who have Ubuntu installed could go
for help. This site/page would have volunteers logged in and waiting for
folks needing help
This sounds pretty close to Ubuntuforums to me. I use this frequently
to give support to others and also to get support for myself. I
prefer Ubuntuforums more than IRC. I have found IRC to be very useful
on times I have used it, but I find it pretty cryptic to get it all
started correctly and I do not really understand what is connecting
etc. Now if I feel intimidated by the IRC cryptic clunkiness, I am
sure that real newcomers will be uncomfortable. Forums are seen a lot
in Windows World, and have a familiarity.
True, but the main difference in my suggestion is that it involves
one-to-one help through remote access where you can physically show the
person how to do something. Rather than the forum post by post method
which can take a while to get things done/explained properly. Some
beginners just don't know how to explain what/where the problem is.
I use teamviewer a lot to help remote friends (non commercial) and
although I dislike the proprietary-ness of teamviewer it works well,
and can be installed into a live session.
Yeah, something like that would be great for helping folks.
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