End-User "Training"

Chris Bier chris.bier at cymor.com
Wed Jul 18 22:54:45 CDT 2001


The only thing I can think of would be http://www.linuxnewbie.org/

  Chris

Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

>(On a more practical note...)
>
>Most of the guides to Linux I know of are for us tinkerers - they're on how
>to set it up, install stuff, get it working, make it do things.  We're
>explorers, and if you give us a tool with a capability, we'll figure out how
>to put that capability to work.
>
>End users, on the other hand, tend not to be explorers.  They have
>jobs/tasks to do, and they're not going to be happy hunting around looking
>for how that task is approached in a new system.  They want to know "How do
>I do a mail merge?", "How do I make a shortcut to my mail program?", "How do
>I print a graphic I've scanned?", and they want to know it on a "Click the
>blue button" level, not on a "Well, there's Star Office, ABIWord, and
>KSpread, you could use one of those...".
>
>Does anybody know of a good source for this kind of instruction?  Is there
>any available yet?
>
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