up a level  post article  search  admin  Contact  main  parent	Novice needs guru. So What? by JEDIDIAH on Thursday June 14, 2001 @ 07:14 PM A novice end user needs to be bailed out by the local guru? What's the big deal here? I've been doing this for WinDOS users for 8 years. Win2k still hasn't gotten away from this problem. The system adminstration complexities of Linux and Windows actually overlap to a considerable degree. Also, "good enough" is never fully specified when it comes to web browsers, office suite software, or anything else that is compared to MSFoo. This is as true for competitors on Win32 as it is for ones under Linux. Until "good enough" is actually defined, such "complaints" are ultimately pointless. You describe a novice that has little stomach for OS complexities yet is supposed to eat them up when it comes to actual applications. For many users, most productivity applications far surpassed their actual needs a long time ago. "stale" simply isn't a real problem. Your article is too much rhetoric and too little substance.	Related Links Articles on LinuxMedNews Also by JEDIDIAH Contact author
	The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. ( Reply ) Re: Novice needs guru. So What? by I. Valdes on Friday June 15, 2001 @ 11:12 AM >>> Your article is too much rhetoric and too little substance. <<< Possibly, but for those outside of the open source mainstream, the biggest question for them is: 'When?' which I think the above answers. I could have put more speculative dates such as when things like ALSA are going to reach 1.0 and possibly be in kernel, but I'm lazy and didn't think it would add that much. Also, I've been privately told that I put in too much boilerplate at times so I'd like to put in less technical stuff from time to time. What do you think? -- IV [ Reply to this ] The Fine Print: The following comments are owned by whoever posted them. ( Reply )

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