[NTLUG:Discuss] Something to ponder (bad Linux enterprise experience article)

[Rev. wRy]

Alton R. Pouncey, II wrote:

> I agree with the "RTFM"/Behavior point.  I hate it when people do that. 
> When I got started with Linux, I thought the point was to try to help
> folks and not be an egotistical a*hole.

I don't disagree that RTFM gets annoying - but it is usually a pretty 
fine manual.  I see a lot more of it on usenet than I do on mailing 
lists.  IME, on usenet a lot of the questions actually can be answered 
with RTFM, if only the asker would do so.

I've yet to see someone either here or on usenet pose a detailed 
question (when I do x, y occurs, every time) along with relevant error 
messages and get 'RTFM' as a solution.  At that point, it's pretty 
apparent they already read the manual.

Ry