On Wed, 24 Oct 2001 xsprite@bigfoot.com wrote:
Seriously, you have to comprehend if you want to avoid making horrendous mistakes. A common complaint about Linux docs are that it is too much parrot-fashion type x, then y, then z, which leaves newbie owners open to being told complete rubbish.
Sure, but you can always have "type this.. this does blah blah blah, then type this, 'blah' means ..". That way you don't only have an easy, hopefully working route outlined, but you also have something explaining what exactly you are doing and why.
The trouble with Linux when I started using it was that all the HOW-TO documents that did this were so hopelessly out of date that they were about as useful in the situation as an OS/2 manual would have been.
The document that says type this, then this, then this is usually completly useless for 99% of people as they are having some kind of problem that you can't fix by doing things like that.
Adam