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[John]

Oliver Grawert wrote:
> hi,
> 
> Am Sonntag, den 03.10.2004, 11:12 -0400 schrieb GR Gaudreau:
> 
>>[GR]   You make a good point that techie answers can be difficult to 
>>parse, but if you wish to learn the command line and its powers -- and
>>it's powerful! -- then you have to go to "the dark place" and practice, 
>>and you won't do that if you aren't challenged to learn; and techie talk 
>>is, to me, a challenge to learn.
> 
> assuming that the average user wants this, but i think the average user
> will just want to use her desktop and the applications....looking at my
> girlfirend, she wants to be able to read mail, browse, write her html
> and css stuff and then be able to easy upload it to our server. she
> didn't know about the registry when using windows and doesn't know too
> much about the command line of linux, she just wants a tool to cope with
> the task.

I don't know whether your girlfriend is an _average user_ just now, but 
for sure her level os skill will become so as Linux use on the desktop 
spreads.

If she were to hang out on the installing list, ir would be to help out 
and (maybe) consolidate her skills.

To get answers to her problems, I envisage the "getting started" list 
would be appropriate. For her, my three daughters, my boss. My wife, maybe.

If people like you and me hang out there, it's to help: not too many of 
our questions should be asked there. Inevitably, some will be asked on 
the wrong list and even answered there: while I would discourage that, 
it does serve as a reminder that there are other places for other questions.


We shouldn't forget the archives users too: I don't know how much 
they're actually used, but if questions can be separated out into 
helpfully different and clear categories then it makes locating 
interesting material easier for those people too.


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