I think the forums were already hujely popular (at times, even to the point of being unusable), and askubuntu needed some help, when it was incuded in the slideshow.
Let's not be jelous now, shall we.
I think the forums were already hujely popular (at times, even to the point of being unusable), and askubuntu needed some help, when it was incuded in the slideshow.
Let's not be jelous now, shall we.
Well *I* appreciate all your (plural) guru time and effort. I have learned a lot from you (plural).
And I appreciate the high caliber of help and patience in this community.
It makes sense to not overwhelm new users with too many choices in the first few minutes (Forums, IRC, Launchpad, Wiki, Planet, LoCos, Hangouts, Mailing Lists, Blogs, etc. ). They will find it when they need it, or when they are ready for it.
I can understand recommending AskUbuntu. Many new-user questions are similar, and they need to learn to start looking up answers for themselves.
One of the (several) things I like about Ask Ubuntu is that I, as a regular member, have the ability to fix incredibly stupid or inappropriate titles such as this one to make them less "trolly" or more appropriate. When I had posted about that here, I wasn't particularly impressed by the responses of several very senior people including those who signed the Code of Conduct. In the meta section of Ask Ubuntu (or other Stack Exchange sites) such questions are dealt with in a more useful manner.
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Found a bug report on this, so, it seems the topic has been discussed and decided upon.
...this as well:
http://serial-coder.co.uk/blog/2012/...ntu-installer/
http://www.dylanmccall.com/blog/2012...ler-slideshow/
Last edited by mikewhatever; April 21st, 2013 at 05:03 AM.
It definitely wasn't an oversight, as mikewhatever points out.
That was a pretty ridiculous response in the last link. We don't want to put too much on the screen, but it's a good idea to pack the screen full with tweets. It just sounds like a big convoluted load of horse dung to try and make it sound like there is a great, profound reason to not put the forums on there. Plus, he totally dissed the forums and painted it out to be way too confusing for new people. New people have been doing just fine getting help here for way longer than AskUbuntu has been around. He mentions the main ubuntu.com/support page is shown, but doesn't mention that Ubuntu Forums isn't shown anywhere on that page. You have to click on a small obscure link toward the bottom to get to another page that has a small section that mentions the forum. It's almost like they're ashamed of us.
Kudos to Jono Bacon for being the first to call him out on his BS. There's no reason they can't both be on there.
Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You. - Dr. Seuss
There's ask
There are the forums (which should definitelly be included).
then there is also the ubuntu manual and excelent IRC support. if irc maybe really is a bit more geeky, the manual is not.
Mint has done it nicely with that help screen that appears the first time.
Read the easy to understand, lots of pics Ubuntu manual.
Do i need antivirus/firewall in linux?
Full disk backup (newer kernel -> suitable for newer PC): Clonezilla
User friendly full disk backup: Rescuezilla
If you wish to persue I cannot stop you, but enough of my time has been spent in that area, as it has been on this bug report.
Good luck.
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