The great features of Linux - an alternative view

[Amedee Van Gasse (ub)]

On Sat, September 11, 2010 14:43, Luis Paulo wrote:
> The great features of Linux:
> "The Linux community is there to help you"
>
> * Why geeks like it:
> Linux users form a tight community. There are numerous chat rooms,
> mailing lists and discussion forums with many knowledgeable people who
> can help you with your problems. What's best, these people are
> volunteers and don't charge anything for helping you!
>
> * What it means in real life:
> There is no official, commercial support for Linux, so you have to
> rely on the other Linux users if you need help. For example, you go to
> a Linux discussion forum that is full of geeks who are full of
> themselves because they're so 1337 they know how to use Linux. You ask
> a very basic newbie question and one of those 1337 Linux h4x0rz tells
> you to RTFM. Then you spend the rest of your day trying to figure out
> what RTFM means.
>
> ----
>>From the ANTI-help, at http://www.tuxfiles.org/linuxhelp/altview.html
> The rest is not that funny to post here. Well, maybe "Linux is secure".
>
> No question/help intended, what so ever.

This may be very interesting food for discussion.
But I thought that ubuntu-users@ was the tech support list, and that you
were encouraged to use sounder@ for general discussion? Has that changed
recently? I think I missed the memo.

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Amedee