I'm sorry, but I'm desperet

[Léonie Watson]

Chris,

    If you've found the going anything like me, then trying to get at
documentation has been as problematic as trying to understand the right
methods for doing anything.

    I do agree with Greg that documentation is a good source of information
and as someone else mentioned, people do tend to skip the effort of reading
up, in the hope of getting an easy answer from an expert. But the key is
that as long as we all give it a shot, then asking for help is cool. It's
one of the things I like most about the Net... the fact that you can hook up
with a bunch of people wiser on a given subject than you are and learn from
them, as you learn yourself.

    The change from Windows to Linux is not an easy one to make however.
I've lost count of the tutorials and hotos that assume I know how to
download something and install it and that work on the basis that I even
know what a tar-ball is. It's a great OS, I'm liking it already, but the
frustration at not being able to accomplish in Linux, what would take me 30
seconds on Windows is incredible.

    Perhaps I need a "Linux for Muppets" web site? LOL.

Tink

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris" <chris at mailvision.ath.cx>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: I'm sorry, but I'm desperet


> Ann?  thank you thank you thank you.
>
>
> This is exactly! the type attitude that I love to see, and I really
> appreciate your comments...  i can't tell you how much it means to me to
> have friends like you who are willing to see my determination and yeah,
Ann
> said it quite well...  i've been struggling quite a bit, and really am
> trying...  I think with me, the problem with documentation is that i've
> always been a bit exceptionally chalenged when it comes to learning...
When
> i was in school, I had to be in the E C department...  not all the time,
no,
> but some of the time...  i had to have a teacher aide if that tells yall
> something...
> For me, saying read the manual turns me off, cause I've never been able to
> do that and retain what I have read.  It's easier, when someone doesn't
baby
> me now, but at least verbally, not e-mail, not IM's but verbally talks me
> through what I need done...  and i really understand most of you all are
> more experienced than I am, and probably just want to move on, but if yall
> will please just vare with me for a bit, i'm not asking it to be
> permanently, but just enough to get me through this learning curve...
keep
> in mind, i've totally been brought up first,on dos,and then taken to
win3.x,
> and now to win9x, and maybe even some of win xp, which I can't stand mind
> you...  just try to have a little heart, and help me out...  I promise
i'll
> learn, and be able to lean more away from yall, but for now, I need all
the
> help I can get...  even if it's as simple as asking how to untar a file...
>
> Sorry if I came on at first as ignerant.  it wasn't my ententions, but
> remember, you were once in this creek as well, so try to help me, not
shove
> me...
>
>
> Chris.
>
>
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