[olug] Irish refers to himself as a newbie

[Bill Brush]

I'll agree with this.  I've been playing with Linux for 10 years (off and
on) and I consider myself a competent Linux user, but beyond that I
wouldn't call myself an expert.  I think that in general Linux is still
very much a programmer/developer oriented platform, although some distros
are putting on enough layers of GUI and user-friendly stuff that it is
beginning to be useable without having to do things the uber-geek way.

Program installation is still a major weakness, but it's starting to come
around.

Bill

olug-bounces at olug.org wrote on 04/30/2004 07:35:15 AM:
> Three years is nothing.  I've been playing with Linux in some way or
> another since '99, and about all I consider myself good at is the
> oddities of running on Macs.  (On the other hand, I'm often the guy who
> gets asked unixy questions at the places I've worked.)  The whole depth
> of Linux is exposed to the user, as much as you care to investigate, so
> I suppose that makes it easier to remain at relative "newbie" status
> longer.  There's so much more that can be learned.