Vowing to always be a newb.

Take this with a grain of salt, whomever you are if you read this.
For the record, NO, I am not offended by the posts regarding 'newbs,' 'noob's,' or whatever. Yes, I consider myself a newb. Anyone on the irc channel knows that. I have given myself the role "constant newb" to keep the old timers on their toes. As I've stated elsewhere, I think that some of the folks who've 'been around a while' reallly do not have a clue what it's like to be a run of the mill newb. Those who excell at things Linux quickly lose the newb feeling and become old hat at scripting and remastering, etc. What I think is missing are those that don't warm up to this Linux thing as quickly as the old timers do/did.
I am what one might consider a 'slow' linux newb. I don't catch on as quick as some, don't read what I should, and am kinda lazy. However, I like what I'm doing with linux and DSL in particular. If not for DSL I would not know the miniscule things about linux that I know.
What I do know is this: I've kicked 'ole McGates to the curb in favor of DSL on six PC's that I have influence over. Two laptops and the others are a hodge podge of parts that I've put together.
It works for me. I don't need to know the intimate workings of how EVERYTHING is done quite yet. I hope to become much more knowledgeable in the future. But I take my time. I'm not rushing it. I am having fun the way I am doing it.
Don't take this wrong way 'old timers' but for some of us, knowing everything as quickly as possible is not really a concern.
I live linux the way I live my life. One day at a time. I do what needs to be done today. Everything else is icing on the cake. If I get ALSA doing what I want it to do today. Great! If not, it'll come one way or the other. If nvidia.dsl is doing what I want it to do... schweet. If not, I'll get around to working on on it. If I don't, will it hurt you? It won't hurt me.
I am so very appreciative of the efforts of the 'old timers.' Without them, I would not be enjoying the DSL that I know today.
I started with DSL 0.8.2 and feel like I am about ready to 'get into it.' Don't be mislead. My 'get into it' is probably much different than your 'get into it.' I'll poke around with DSL/Linux with the time I have available between Google searches for cool gadgets and UFC results so long as it's productive. If not, I'm looking into something else at NewEgg or Cisco.com.
Again, don't misunderstand me. Linux is in my world to stay, if for no other reason that I don't like M$ for the various and sundry reasons familiar to most of us. But at the same time, don't push me. I'll do it in my own time. I don't NEED a PC anyway, but as long as I make the choice to have one or six and download gnu-utils.dsl and the B-52's Love Shack at the same time, you are going to have to deal with it because I am going to be in your face as "The rudest Newb" as long as I'm interested in so doing.
'Nuff said.

By green at 2005-02-06 05:53 | green's blog | login or register to post comments

^_^

>>I live linux the way I live my life. One day at a time. I do what needs to be done today. Everything else is icing on the cake. If I get ALSA doing what I want it to do today. Great! If not, it'll come one way or the other. If nvidia.dsl is doing what I want it to do... schweet. If not, I'll get around to working on on it. If I don't, will it hurt you? It won't hurt me.//

Congratulations. You just crossed the line from newb to "normal Linux user".

Most people do /not/ see things this way. They expect everything to work perfectly, the first time, or it's back into the warm, welcoming arms (cold, slimy clutches?) of Gates & Co.

You are the same as many here. ^_^ Willing to work a bit for the goal of more stable/efficient computing, and ask questions when you have to.

Most demand the answers to their problems, and get angry when they have to do a few minutes of work, like your alsa install.

Eventually, things like this will be just another everyday thing, and you will be more at home than you ever were with MS, and know exactly how and why you have things set up.

I am/was the same as you, about 18 months ago, when I first started looking at linux as more than a tool to break NT passwords.

You will get there. And you will get just as frustrated as us "old timers" at the repetitive questions that get asked.

It just takes time. Resistance is futile. ^_^

-J.P.

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Deep Thought was wrong. The Answer isn't 42, it's DSL!

By SaidinUnleashed at Sun, 2005-02-06 06:09 | login or register to post comments

noobs...jk;-)

DSL got me reinterested in linux, being the first (live cd) I tried that actually was compatible with all my hardware. Or maybe more like autodetected it, either way the first that I could make practical use of. I bought a $49 old P2 to dedicate to running DSL and since then (around a year) have begun nearly exclusively running GNU/Linux. Personaly, I can not afford to buy most commercial software so oss is my preferred option to remaining a "pirate". Argh!

I am a noob forever too. Ask questions, fiddle around, learn some stuff, and have a good time.

By zmef420 at Sun, 2005-02-06 07:31 | login or register to post comments

Newbishness

Hmm, well I'm another Newbie to the Linux scene. One who has a tendency to overlook some issues in Documentations (Which Cost me two months of my life unsuccessfully trying to install Gentoo from stage 2) And I am a Debian user (owning Debian and Xandross my first real attempt at being a Linux user) then after being given a Dell Inspiron 3000 after my Toshiba A10 died I thought what the smeg, I'm demanding my soul back and converting to the Linux way of thinking. However being a Newbie to the added Knoppix scene of DSL, it sometimes confuses me about what's going on.

Eg : Other day I wrote a shell script to change my backgrounds and set all my visual preferences up. Then had no idea how to integrate it into startup. (hey so I don't know how DSL setup and preferences work, I still made a solution that does the job) And while I'm still manually running the shell script after each boot :D I don't consider that a failure. As I got exactly what I wanted done, done. And I stretched some old scripting muscles as well.

As for Newbdom, everyone is a Newb. Just at a higher level

Higara

By Higara at Wed, 2005-03-09 08:46 | login or register to post comments

Hey forget what I said about

Hey forget what I said about Scripting my Background :D , I actually had some time today to get onto the forums, I kinda thought the solution was actually the opposite of what it was. But yeah that's Noobishness Lvl 1 hurdled. Now onto the next little fumble my way throught thing :p

By Higara at Fri, 2005-03-11 02:37 | login or register to post comments

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