Hello all,I do not know if this is the right place to ask this type of question. I do not know where to go to ask this, but I will get to the point and my My question is, can I ask for help, Is this a helpful community for a beginner or will I be talked down to by asking a questions that I have a problem with? I was just at another linux community that I thought would be patent to help ones that are trying their best to made it through Linux after being with Windows for several years and needed a change to something that was not as aggravating to work with. Is this such a community that will help someone with the best intent to get better at linux or not ? Thank you, mooseman1976
I hope you get lots of help here.
Jay, who runs learnlinux.TV forums and the YouTube channel of the same name, definitely wants these forums to be friendly and to help beginners. Everyone was a beginner at one time.
I moved from Windows 4 years ago, and I think it’s been ok. I try to not miss Photoshop.
I think the Linux desktop is not at good at windows in the way it assigns an icon to a file copied to the desktop, and the way it responds when a desktop file is opened isn’t quite the same. An example is putting a web page link on the desktop is just plain weird imo.
But beyond that I like my post Windows PC more than I expected.
Ask questions! You should get helpful responses here.
Best regards,
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Absolutely not, Jay would not allow that. This forum is one of the toxic-free zones for you to ask anything you like without judgement.
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Of course its a helpful community and long may that continue but the most frustrating thing is questions which miss out on the essential detail as if we are mind readers and can see your screen to determine possible solutions to your issue such that when possible solutions are suggested, the OP simply says “Oh I tried that but it doesn’t work” without providing further context.
There’s a wealth of detail provided in Jay’s videos which can often be found by plugging in the exact error message in to your browser or search engine but what you won’t find is, as Jay recently said in one of his recent vids, a simple RTFM response without using the reference to support a more detailed explanation. Better to remain silent than just be disrectful to the OP.
Fill your boots!
Part of the reason I kinda stopped posting here is the people who seem to ask for help for their work. I don’t mind being helpful with people trying to learn, but some people seem to want to “outsource” their jobs to others. The other reason is that it feels like most people who join the forum look like bots and it almost feels like I’m talking and training AI.
I’m also a fan of telling people to read the friendly manual, but unlike Jay, I think this is actually productive. That’s how I learned myself. I was not so shameless to ask people on random forums, so I was searching for answers online (and almost always finding something on either ubuntu stack exchange, the old ubuntu forums or the arch forums). There came times when I couldn’t find a solution as a ready answered question, so I had to RTFM and learn what I was doing. That’s how I became less dependent on asking others for assistance / guidance.
I really think Jay and others should start telling people to read. He literally has a book, he should be like “buy my book or go read the manual.” I’m not saying people shouldn’t be doing online tutorials, guides, wizards and scripts to help others (that’s what I’m generally doing with things I find useful and that I think others would benefit from), but answering questions directly should be avoided, unless it’s specific to some particular thing you worked on (if you make a software or script and have an undocumented flag in it and people ask you questions about that, you should answer that instead of telling them to read the code). But if it’s documented and it’s easily accessible, people should go and read that first (e.g. “how to rsync recursively and keep users, groups, permissions and mtime” - just man rsync).
Absolutely, this is a smarty pants reply free zone. Jay would immediately delete any such response and reprimand the user and/or remove their access. Jay can be trusted implicitly.
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Thank you greeners for your comment. I would have to go back to the last LINUX community site I was at and copy and paste the comment that was told to me, but I do not care to go back there. The people in the community was OK, but the comment came from the leader or the head moderator and I didn’t think that I did anything wrong. So I do not care to relive that expereance. everyone here has been great, and helpful. I may ask something that maybe off the wall, but just not sure of what to do. Please have patience with me for sometimes I what to do something neet, but it is over my head for now and i have to remember to take it one day at a time. Like command line stuff. I think it is neet to do things that way, but I just do not have the understanding to do command line. Anyway It has been a good experiance so far here in this community and I wish it to be a lone one. thank you everybody.
Yep; I bought his Ubuntu server book and I’ve read about 80% of it so far. From it I learnt how Ubuntu linux network cards get their names assigned based on their chipset and PCI address, which explained something that had puzzled me for years, caused problems, so that was delightful.
I do try bear in mind that not everyone can digest the technical manual, as they’re not at the technical level to use it.
As others have pointed out, there is a some excellent material in Jay’s LearnLinuxTV videos. Start with the Linux Commands for Beginners series.
Yes, it is a begginer friendly forum. But nonetheless please, please, please! Do your research… There are many people who ask a question and, presumedly, didn’t even try to find an answer online.
I understand that reading documentation can be tedious and dauntin (I myself have many a time a notion that people who wrote it, think that I - the reader, already know how to use and it is only a chet sheet, this is very frustrating). That is why when I search for something I usually type something like “bash function examples”. There are tons of good tutorials out there (I can recommend eg linuxize.org).