HOWTO: Get Linux support on any bbs/list

"I don't think that Linux will ever be ready for the desktop until it starts supporting [describe your issue here]."

Discuss.

This tread is titled "HOWTO: Get Linux support on any bbs/list".
But the original post says "I don't think that Linux will ever be ready for the desktop until it starts supporting [describe your issue here]."
The title has hardly anything to do with the original post. Makes no sense to me.

Lol

You can also try "Linux sucks, it's impossible to do <x>; it's so easy in Windows where you just do <y>."

"I don't think that Linux will ever be ready for the desktop until it starts supporting [describe your issue here]."

I see that happening a lot on various linux forums. Some guy who's tried Linux for maybe a day or a week (and it's usually their first try at an OS other than Windows) comes and says "Why bother with Linux? It's so hard" or "Linux is not ready for the desktop because <piece of hardware> is not supported".

Uusally those threads end up becoming massive, with 50+ pages of people responding with "You're wrong!!! LINUX FOR THE FUTURE, DAMN M$" or something.

>>2
I meant that it is the magic question to ask to get support everywhere. Linux fanboys are very, very defensive when you bring this hot issue, and they will give you high quality support so that they can prove you wrong, even though they would have replied "lol stfu noob rtfm & stfw" if you only made a polite request for support.

http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm

>>6
TL;DR. Still agree with the conclusion, but this article uses wayyyyy too many words to deliver very few actual facts and a stupid opinion. People who ask the questions he bitches about are not the kind of people that will read his article.

interesting thread. i've always given up on any Unix I try within a few minutes because I'm afraid of forums for being too advanced to provide basic answers to things like "how do I go about starting x" and no realtime support place knows Linux enough beyond "idk i use ubuntu try googling it?"

What Unix-pushers have trouble realizing is that Unix is learned through manuals, and no desktop user reads manuals, much less manuals written with previous knowledge assumed. There needs to be a place for morons like me to go.

Is there some sort of website that attempts to try to help newbies out with the things that'll run them into the wall within the first 3 minutes? I can only use floppy net installers, so all of the easy, mainstream modern Linuxes are out of the question.

>>8
There is some easy documenation like this, but it is generally written by people who have no idea what they are talking about.

>>9
I'd rather do something broken than not do it at all. After all, that's what learning is all about!