Re: Ubuntu (Linux); my first experience of...

On Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:58:46 +0000, Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Tue, 27 Feb 2007 14:24:05 +0000) it happened Paul Burke
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The most common response to a problem is "RTFM"

Exactly, there are thousands of pages of documentation, do you want somebody
else do read them for you? And do the googling?

My question is always, "Read _WHICH_ Fucking Manual?" It's like going
to the Library of Congress with a keyword, and I have to find the right
book that has that chapter.

But usually, I've found that if you ask nicely, they'll at least give
you a link to something that's in the category you're looking for.

And everything has a "man page", which is the instruction manual for
the program, but they were written by whatever Phd wrote the app, so
a lot of them are pretty much incomprehensible. :-)

Other than that, I'm really happy with it - my next task, when I finally
get the Doze install on my dual-boot system fixed and get caught up on my
work (I've just been dicking around with a W2K software problem for about
three days), I'm going to learn how to install and operate Wine, so
hopefully I won't have to boot Win at all. :-)

Cheers!
Rich

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