| From: Evan Leibovitch via talk <talk@gtalug.org> | These courses are almost all command line. Wow. That certainly would make Linux unattractive to most ordinary people. Both computer beginners and ordinary users of Windows or MacOS. | That's how, for the most part, what's taught is generally | distribution-neutral. | Most of what differentiates the distributions is in graphic interface and | software provision/update policy, which is more advanced that this level of | course gets. Being distribution-neutral is a great feature but I'm not sure that it is worth the trauma to ordinary users. I guess that the target of the courses must not include ordinary users. What is the target audience? Perhaps TPL needs a different course "Intro to Linux" for ordinary users. First thing: why should ordinary users care.