Amazingly dumb remark about Linux (fwd)

[Steve Holmes]

The methods mentioned below may be fun and trialsum but very
inefficient and often very costly! You should really learn to
appreciate learning from documentation and man pages.  After some
practice, you can learn to skim the docs and read the important stuff
like basic starting, and necessary.  Look for defaults and hope they
are what you want.  The reading might be long and often boring at
first but after some reading, play with it and then feel free to ask
more questions after you know a bit more about the particular command
you're trying.  The linux HOWTO's are also a very valuable source.
Frankly, I would never gotten my linux stuff going independently many
years ago without having read those things.  Just as important as
reading docs is getting in there and hack around a bit.; practice what
you just learned.  Yes, some docs may require reading several times
before fully comprehending them; then after that, it becomes a
valuable reference when you forget that extra option you need once in
a blue moon.  I had to read the CD-Writing HOWTO several times before
I really caught on to the process.  I'd sure hate to try burning CD's
by trial and error.

On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 05:03:44AM +0300, Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> That's exactly what I want.
> I want to be able to solve the problem by trial and error, by guessing and
> not by reading a manual.
> 
> Under Linux, I can't guess a command line parameter.
> If it needs only one parameter, I can guess it but if it needs a lot of
> parameters it will take me a very long time and I may break something.
> 
> In Windows, I can try and if it is something dangerous, it will ask me, do
> you really want to  do xxx?
> And I can cancel, but under Linux, ...
> 
> Teddy,
> orasnita at home.ro
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 11:39 PM
> Subject: Re: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux (fwd)
> 
> 
> > There is no fine manuel for winblows.  Online help sux because beby the
> time
> > you find what you need in those long worthless helpfiles, you've already
> > solved your problem.
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ari Moisio" <armoi at sci.fi>
> > To: "Speakup mailing list" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 12:43 AM
> > Subject: OT: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux (fwd)
> >
> >
> > > Hi!
> > >
> > > Octavian Rasnita 03.06.02:
> > >
> > > >Have you heard to read the "fine" manual of Windows, or of MS Office?
> > > >I never heard that.
> > >
> > >   Is there fine manuals for windows at all? At least online helps are
> > > worthless 'cos they repeat same things with more msoft hype than
> > > original problem.
> > >
> > >   Of course there are also a lot of printed books but they are useless
> > > for blind user.
> > >
> > >   In contrast Linux has excellent documentation, both technically
> > > oriented man pages, good howto's and FAQ's. All these are accessible
> > > plain text or html.
> > >
> > > --
> > > Mr. Ari Moisio, Niittykatu 5, 41160 Tikkakoski, +358-40-5055239
> > > ari.moisio at iki.fi http://www.iki.fi/arimo PGP-keyID: 0x3FAF0F05
> > >
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