| 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.
What I found is that GUIs are (or anyway were when the old Palo Alto standards still applied) so similar that I didn't really care which one I was using. You point, you click, things happen. Even my aged mother didn't notice the difference after a Windows printer installation failed catastrophically, and I replaced the entire OS with Ubuntu. For promotional purposes, prospective users should know that Linux works the same, and just as well. When you get to the parts the GUI programmers left out, then your only way to understand the things they didn't do is through the command line. Xfce here has gotten some very strange ideas about the apps that go with various file extensions, and I haven't found a configuration app that will set it right. Poking around, searching directories, editing mysterious files seems to be the only way.
| 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.
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