I'm impressed - -

Forum: User Feedback
Topic: I'm impressed - -
started by: gm6jag

Posted by gm6jag on June 29 2004,14:18

Hi Gangue,

Well, that's about a week of playing with DSL, from a complete newbie, never used any form of linux before except a very small demo of QNX.

I am impressed with the way it goes out of the box, but it does kind of need a primer of some kind. What I mean is a file/htm page or printer friendly FAQ's primer somewhere for the really really thick newbies like myself to save time for the really obvious ones that newbies don't know!

Does such an animal exist? or are you gonna say

"Write it up and put it somewhere for the rest?"

in which case I might just pester all and sundry for the answers and do that! I'm not an operating system person, I can write fairly well in HTML and the likes, so any OS things I do have to be words of one syllable - it's no use telling me I should install a "hypergrabber clutch stabiliser" with "overclocked joylodestoppers" when like loads of guys I just don't know what those are.

Oh, and did I mention I'm a silver surfer as well, when you get past 60 the brain cells start to deteriorate - where's the car keys dear! - so they tell me!

Anyhow, thanks for any info and best regards

Mel
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Posted by cbagger01 on June 29 2004,17:00

One of the problems that experienced Linux users have is that they don't see things from the perspective of a new user and therefore have difficulty capturing the things that the new user does not understand or needs help.

It would be VERY helpful if you could think back to your recent initial experience with DSL and write down a journal or diary style log that documents the things that you had to learn in order to get up to speed.

Try not to skip anything, even the stuff that seems trivial to you now matters.

Once these items are captured, the next step is to write a nice, readable document that goes about answering them or providing other help as required.