Interesting Article - "Ubuntu made me quit college!!"

[Mr. C clark]

I was speaking from personal experience in particular IRC Chat.
I see many people asking how do I fix my sound or my video won't work.
Many people are having difficulties with various tasks, I have been lucky I guess it seems to always work.
I am unsure why so many people are asking for help to do basic things, but then I think about the blank stares I get when talking about computers to non technical people.


Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 08:45:33 -0500
Subject: Re: Interesting Article - "Ubuntu made me quit college!!"
From: swfiua at gmail.com
To: ubuntu-ca at lists.ubuntu.com

Re: the linux learning curve being too large, I'm not really convinced by that argument, it does rather depend what you are hoping to do with the machine.

Ironically, you will see linux on netbooks being described as a "beginner" operating system -- but if you're an "expert" you'll want XP.


However, giving someone a linux pc and no help is a recipe for disaster.   When you are starting from zero linux knowledge with no-one to help you, then yes, the curve is steep.   It does seem that this student got the help needed in the end and is able to use the machine to do what is needed.


John

On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 7:57 PM, Mr. C clark <c_dive at hotmail.com> wrote:





This college student should never have been sold a Linux pc to start college, the learning curve is Large.

 

_________________________________________________________________
Show them the way! Add maps and directions to your party invites.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowslive/events.aspx
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-ca/attachments/20090121/ff112d65/attachment.html>