On Tue, 2022-10-11 at 08:24 -0300, George N. White III wrote:
I used to teach “practicals” for workshops using the software in
question. Spending the first couple sessions on linux basics made the
remaining sessions flow more efficiently. You can’t cover very much
in a few hours, so the main goal was to get participants in the habit
of using reliable reference material like
linuxcommand.org and the
Debian manuals (the workshop used Ubuntu).
It's always going to be a problem, unfortunately. Here, things get
peer-reviewed (like what is happening right now), and hopefully people
walk away learning better ways to do thing.
On the internet, you have things like instructables websites which
gives anybody a platform to publish how-to guides, without any kind of
review, just an after-the-fact critique in the comments section (many
from equally clueless people). The same with various other no-brainer
short video clip websites, and various other text forums with the blind
leading the blind.
At least the clue-by-four you get on Linux mailing lists, that some
people do not like, knocks the dumber ideas on the head.
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