Betty, my wife is a nurse (I admire you already) and a VERY capable GUI user 
(I understand you already too) who surprised me with her M$ Win 
understanding years ago and has efficiently navigated Linux since we ditched 
Micro$haft some other years ago. 

I am glad I was able to shine some light on you and I think that this 
message should be embraced by all Linux lists and FOSS communities:
*WE* are the geeks.
*YOU* are the community!     :)
And *WE* are here to help *YOU*...
Thanks!
Enrique 

PS: As I offered before, I'll be glad to walk you over the phone anytime you 
feel stuck on a rut.  Or you feel like it... 

 


betty writes: 

> thank you kurt, et al, for the kind words of help, support.
> kurt , you did a good job of walking me through the precise way to copy 
> the home dir to usb, and the reasons to use the different commands. 
> 
> I am copying it to the usb so that after a fresh install of ubuntu 
> 8.04lts on a new computer i can use my same home dir & settings, never 
> did that before. When i get that far i guess i need to ask, ? where do i 
> install it to???? 
> 
> I have been on this list since 2000, i think. i am a grandma, & a nurse. 
> i started w/redhat years ago and always found the list people to be 
> helpful since i am really only a gui user. But whenever i talk to 
> someone about computers, i try to convince them that open source is the 
> way to go and the way of the future. I try to preface my requests for 
> help here with saying what i don't know, since almost everyone knows 
> more than me on this list; that way people will be nice and give me 
> careful advice, like you did. 
> 
> Sometimes it starts a list argument to ask a question about the way to 
> perform something; like the dd vs, cp vs rsync and since i didn't know 
> the in's and out's of each one it was impossible to decide who's answer 
> was best for my situation. 
> 
> I think if i gave most members  here an i.v. start kit and a delivery 
> kit and had to tell them how to start the i.v. on a laboring mom, then 
> deliver the baby, they would appreciate having more detail to attention 
> and social 'handholding'  through the procedure. (the patient would 
> appreciate it too!) 
> 
> Linux is really the best thing out there, not expensive like apple and 
> not nasty  and bulky like M$.  I like being a gui user because it shows 
> that people outside the tech community can be users too, and isn't that 
> what we want? (or is it [rhetorical]) ... just my thoughts. 
> 
> btw, what happened to der.hans?? he was always a promoter of helpful 
> answers to even stupid questions. 
> 
> 
> -- 
> betty i.
> www.webcanine.com
> information for people 
> who care for dogs. 
> 
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