The great features of Linux - an alternative view

[Christopher Chan]

On Monday, September 13, 2010 06:45 AM, Amedee Van Gasse (ub) wrote:
> 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.
>

Too bad the devs generally stay away from ubuntu-users and let other 
less knowledgeable and less skilled do the job. Sometimes no just less 
knowledgeable and less skilled but outright clueless too. /me prepares 
cluebyfour.