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This has always annoyed the crap out of me when using Ubuntu. There is a ton of great info at ubuntuforums.com, but it is not well organized and questions don'

This has always annoyed the crap out of me when using Ubuntu. There is a ton of great info at ubuntuforums.com, but it is not well organized and questions don't always get answered. Sometimes a problem will get considered answered without really being answered. A simple issue shouldn't require going to the forums, which can be considerable time investment. Maybe community efforts could be focused on a wiki for more common issues and reserve the forums for problematic issues among those doing real development work. Then again I could just be too lazy for Linux.

Herring 18y ago
Hmm, I usually find answers to all my simple questions on google. There's so many of them I think you'd also have to google on a wiki.
etal 18y ago
The wiki is here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community https://help.ubuntu.com/community Personally, I use Google and pick the link that goes to the community wiki, and avoid the forums. Most new users' Ubuntu nightmare situations seem to get started by reading a "this worked for me" sequence of commands on the forums, trying it, causing another chain-reaction of problems, spiralling to a hell of command-line operations and manual software installations that make no sense for the situation, forcing the user to finally reinstall Linux (perhaps another distro) and post angry messages online. A related problem is that the habits used for casual troubleshooting on Windows -- clicking through menus and dialogs and changing things until the system fixes itself, downloading fixes from a website and installing them -- are generally disastrous on Linux. I suspect this is where most of the land mines on the forums come from. Searching the wiki documentation is much better than the other two approaches for avoiding these problems.

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This has always annoyed the crap out of me when using Ubuntu. There is a ton of great info at ubuntuforums.com, but it is not well organized and questions don'

by quantumhobbit 18y ago

Herring 18y ago
Hmm, I usually find answers to all my simple questions on google. There's so many of them I think you'd also have to google on a wiki.
etal 18y ago
The wiki is here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community https://help.ubuntu.com/community Personally, I use Google and pick the link that goes to the community wiki, and avoid the forums. Most new users' Ubuntu nightmare situations seem to get started by reading a "this worked for me" sequence of commands on the forums, trying it, causing another chain-reaction of problems, spiralling to a hell of command-line operations and manual software installations that make no sense for the situation, forcing the user to finally reinstall Linux (perhaps another distro) and post angry messages online. A related problem is that the habits used for casual troubleshooting on Windows -- clicking through menus and dialogs and changing things until the system fixes itself, downloading fixes from a website and installing them -- are generally disastrous on Linux. I suspect this is where most of the land mines on the forums come from. Searching the wiki documentation is much better than the other two approaches for avoiding these problems.