Seriously, stop being rude to people who complain about Linux!

[smoker]

This time last year I thought a partition was the japaneese room devider my wife has in the bedroom btw.

lol, brilliant, xpod!

[xpod]

lol, brilliant, xpod!

You thinks THATS bad m8??
During my first weeks with the messed up Windows machines i was using at the time i must have somehow ended up with the American Keyboard layout(i didn`t realise this at the time) as my @ key was suddenly no longer working so what did i do????

I called up my isp to tell them my "@" on my Emails was`nt working
The poor guy on the other end didn`nt know any better than me though as he had to go away and ask someone else and the best they could come up with was "START>Programs>Accessories>acceessibility>On-Screen Keyboard....

That was my first weeks in front of the bloody thing admittedly and although i eventually learnt a fair ole bit about Windows during my short time with it nobody can tell me you need to know jack s**t about computers before you can use Ubuntu.

EDIT:You just need to be willing to ask dumb seeming questions instead of making dumb seeming statements about the thing

[Johnsie]

Since newbies are the future of the Linux community I think they should have a say, even if they have a few complaints. A bad first impression could put someone off linux for life. A good first impression can make people want to get more involved and is good for Linux Publicity because they will recommend it to their friends. Word of mouth is a very powerful thing when it comes to the repuatation of a service or product. Anyone who runs a business will tell you that.

[PartisanEntity]

I would not call it rudeness, but I have seen ome impatience when certain questions are asked that have been repeated many times. Sometimes, when such questions are asked, I try to make a friendly comment reminding people to use the search feature. We are after all human beings and cannot be under control 24/7/365.