I'm a "newbie", and Linux is rough --- Re: Wal-Mart shipping PC

[plastic quart]

Not that this is directly related to the comments below...

But, I'm an admittedly novice Linux user (I've installed it on a few 
systems, but it has never been my primary OS). Anywho, I recently made an 
attempt at installing Redhat Interchange on a system 
(http://interchange.redhat.com), as some associates of mine are in need of 
an ecommerce solution for a website.

Anyways, to make a long story long... I couldn't get it to setup for the 
life of me. Like most things Linux, the documentation is just, IMO, 
worthless.

Whereas, installing software on a windows machine is fairly painless and 
fairly efficient (sure, you may not know exactly what is going on, but you 
can't argue w/ something that works)... but looking at the scarce 
documentation for Interchange (and Interchange's dependencies on other 
things I haven't a clue about), well, it just put me off.

Instead of literally spending days trying to figure this thing out, I can 
just integrate Miva Merchant into a website pretty painlessly.

Well, then again, perhaps my comments do coincide w/ the rest of this 
discussion in that: Linux, in general, is not ready for mass consumption.

>From: "J. Eric Gilliland" <patzeric at yahoo.com>
>To: kclug at kclug.org
>Subject: Re: Wal-Mart shipping PCs with Lindows preinstalled
>Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 14:22:48 -0700 (PDT)
>
>hear hear! I could not agree more.
>
>--- Tia Haenni <thaenni at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> > I totally agree. I am what you would term a newbie to
> > Linux and everyone here has to admit that there was a
> > time when they, too, were not infinitely knowledgeable on
> > Linux or Windows or any other OS for that matter. I admit
> > that most of what is discussed here regarding Linux goes
> > over my head, but does that mean that I can't comprehend
> > topics and become somewhat of an expert myself? Of course
> > not. A condescending attitude towards those who are less
> > knowledgeable than yourself only breeds the kind of
> > contempt that many hold for the folks at M$.
> >
> > On 6/18/2002 2:59 PM, \"GodfatherofSoul\" Bellamy
> > <mbellamy at kc.rr.com> wrote:
> > >I think this is a very dangerous attitude to have
> > towards newbies.
> > >
> > > Linux elitism breeds contempt for ease-of-use which
> > leads to neglect
> > >
> > >for features which make it easier for the newbs to adopt
> > Linux.
>
>=====
>J. Eric Gilliland
>patzeric at yahoo.com
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