Dealing with problems on ubuntu

[ac]

SteVe Cook wrote:
> How do deal with problems on ubuntu?
> 
> At the moment it would often be quicker for me to reinstall ubuntu than 
> sort out problems (normally created by me!).  working on the theory that 
>   I'll learn a lot more about the system if I try and resolve the 
> problem I'd rather spend an evening or two rooting through the archives 
> of this list or asking it's users questions.

In the early days I did just the same thing. The bad news was I had 
been adventurous and messed up, the good news was I had been trained 
at M$'s knee where reinstall was the norm, so I thought my distro 
reinstall was easy!  :-)

My learning process was (is) in several stages. Initially my curiosity 
was too great for my experience. I tried to recover, and learned a 
little each time, including reinstalls.

I also had problems making sense of many or most answers - usually 
command line things. CL confidence is coming slowly and steadily, to me.

I now have more confidence and can usually avoid major problems, and 
anyway have a fair chance to recover things myself using advice, 
forums, and my own google use.

Things are not perfect for me yet, but I no longer need windows 
(great!) and can pose useful questions and even mostly understand the 
given answers!

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ac
kubuntu user