From: "Joe Barr" 

Documentation.  Thanks.



On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 19:16:21 +0200, Antti Kurenniemi wrote:

>> Antti,
>>
>> Sorry if I sounded like I was looking for a fight.  I'm not.
>
> No, I was just being careful - I've lurked here for a while 
>
>
>> In fact your comments are becoming the kernel of a new column I am doing
>> on "culture shock" as people migrate or attempt to
migrate from Windows.
>
> Cool !
>
>
>> So far I am writing about the problems of too much choice and the
>> apparently nonsensical naming of applications as the primary topics.
>
> Alrighty.
>
>
>> Any other suggestions for inclusion on a piece on "culture shock"?
>
> Yes: lack of documentation / poor quality of it. That's basically
> understandable, but it still bothers me greatly. One thing I really would
> like to see is a "how to do things in Linux that you're used to doing in
> Windows" kinda doc, I think that could be a hit.
>
> Also, as a positive point, I was fairly impressed that when I installed
> Mandrake, it automatically put itself to an empty hd (bought just for this
> purpose - the other hd has W2k on it), and configured the os selector for
> the boot-up. That was really smooth - it was much more painful the last
> time I came across Linux (RedHat something, a few years ago).
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi

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