Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 11:46:54 10/24/03
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On October 24, 2003 at 10:27:16, Anthony Cozzie wrote: >When I first installed linux 4 >years ago, I had to hand-edit my XF86Config file. I had to write my own XF86Config from scratch a few weeks ago to get my display to go beyond 800x600 (which wasn't all that pretty on a 19 inch monitor). But it wasn't hard. I had never done it before. I just read the documentation and it worked without a single problem. I think the main problem is that people don't want to "waste" even 10 seconds learning how to do something on their own. My mom is always amazed that I "know" her tax program better than she does (and she's an accountant). I really know nothing about it, but she wants to print it a certain way or whatever, and I know that every program has a way to change the printer settings basically the same way, and it's almost always in the File menu, so I go right to it and look around for maybe 5 seconds and find the option she wants and it works. At my work I deal with the people using public computers for the internet and email and writing their resumes, etc. (at a library), and I get the same people asking me the same simple questions, like how to copy and paste something into their Word document. If they wanted to learn instead of asking someone else how to do it each time, they would realize that just about every program has an Edit menu, and under that menu is Copy and Paste, and then they could use programs that they've never used before and give people the impression that they know them. But people don't want to spend a single second looking through the menus, so why would anyone want to spend a few minutes to actually read a few PAGES (oh no!) of documentation, when they can't spare 10 seconds to look under the Edit menu and find Copy and Paste?
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