unix n00bs

unix n00bs (i.e. most of you here) make me shit my pants

for the love of god, people, using unix for a month is not enough to make you knowledgeable in its ways and give advice to others. please refrain from making yourself look like complete utter idiots (mind you, this is hard to achieve since idiots are the norm in CS) by giving horribly shitty authorative-sounding suggestions based on shit you read two days ago on linuxtoday and newsforge.

discuss.

>But most people don't want to spend several hours to a couple of days tweaking files

Most people think the CDROM drive is a coffee mug holder.

Wanting to learn how a computer actually operates is NEVER a bad thing-- unless you're a scab who likes charging people $100 to install (Windows) software that could've done themselves. I work at a non-profit ISP/Freenet; those people who think learning about computers is a waste of their time and beneath them are (a) 99% of the service calls (b) should have never fucking bought a computer in the first place.