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Re: How simple are newbies anyway?

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____/ Homer on Saturday 19 July 2008 17:49 : \____

> Verily I say unto thee, that Matt spake thusly:
>> Homer wrote:
> 
>>> So I ask quite bluntly, what in God's name is wrong with the
>>> whining idiots that supposedly comprise /newbies/ in today's world,
>>> that they cannot use the CLI, and seemingly cannot even /learn/ the
>>> basics of using a computer, without being guided through it like an
>>> infant being spoon-fed baby food?
>> 
>> 
>> You're being silly.
> 
> Not at all, it's a serious point with serious implications for the
> future of GNU/Linux, based on my past experience of a time when
> "newbies" were not "paralysed with fear" as they seem to be today.
 
Remember Linus and "real men writing their own device drivers".

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