[ale] I am so tired of Linux Fanatics

[jrtroberts]

:)
most of my griping about the command line and related issues, is from my 
perspective as one who is trying to recruit new members to the linux 
guild.  I grew up with dos, and after 2 years of non stop CISCO training 
I am back in relative shape to deal with CLI.  I just find it 
unattractive  for people to be so snide and careless about how they 
speak to others who are trying to learn.

I used to be an algebra tutor.  If I told people that I wouldn't help 
them until they read the chapter and did more research on their own, 
they would:
1. stop coming to me to get help
2. fail the class if someone else didn't help them
3. and I would get fired
(not that irc channels are tutoring hot spots)

Linux is a new language, not just a new operating system.  If you were 
trying to learn spanish or german or russain and the people who could 
offer you help handed you a dictionary that was only in that native 
language, and spoke in slang derived from that other language when they 
told you how to use the dictionary learning would suck.

I am bright enough to figure most of this out on my own, but I don't 
want to spend 3 days to 3 weeks reading about the OS.  I want to be 
doing things with it.

So yeah, I am a linux Newb and I guess I am lazy.  So most of it is 
probably my fault.  My time as a salesman should have taught me more 
about swimming with sharks.  If you can't keep up, don't worry about 
staying on the porch, the sharks will eat you up anyway.  Gotta keep 
moving and keep improving.

I guess what I am saying is that there is so much I want to do with 
linux, and I want to do it all right now.  My head is pounding from 
staying up until 5 am, or 8 am every day for the last 3 weeks tinkering 
with it and testing it.  I am burning out and I am getting lazy when a 
new idea comes to my head, I would rather ask then read anymore stuff.

I guess I need to keep a journal of things I want to do, and prioritize 
them and then work from there.  Maybe I will scrum it out.  (I doubt 
either will work, but they are ideas). I don't know, but I will get it 
figured out.  And then the new challenge will be NOT turning into one of 
the people online that respond to questions with comments like:

"are you a windows faggot?"
or
"GIYF!!"  and no it does not mean Google is your friend in this context.


Thanks for the positive support.  I am probably just burning the candle 
at both ends while it hangs over a bon fire.  But, that is kind of the 
way my mind grinds.  It is always hungry for knowledge and I do my best 
to feed it.  Linux is a great smörgåsbord, and I think I am over eating.

8D

Joshua

On 07/07/10 19:13, David Tomaschik wrote:
> I like to consider myself a "Linux Fanatic", but I like to think that
> I'm not smug, arrogant, or otherwise impatient with new users.  Believe
> it or not, I like to help people, and I especially like to help people
> with their Linux issues.  Sure, I'll sometimes make jokes when I'm
> around other technical people (I love the BOFH series), but never at the
> expense of anyone who actually made an effort.  Check out
> LinuxQuestions.org sometime when you have issues -- elitist attitudes
> are not generally tolerated there.  I've found IRC is made up of people
> who need help, and people who enjoy making others feel bad.
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