[arch-general] Newbies in Arch [WAS: Suspend seems not to work with nVidia Nouveau driver]

[Ray Rashif]

On 4 January 2012 16:25, Jonathan Vasquez <jvasquez1011 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Think of Doctors. Sometimes when you feel sick, you go online and you
> try to do your due diligence. Trying to find out what is wrong with
> you (Diagnosing yourself), even though you aren't a doctor. But you
> try to do it anyways because searching for information, and finding a
> solution tends to be something that us hackers have haha (How can we
> be using a distro as great as Arch, and not be used to searching for
> information and solutions? :] ). Once you find the information, you
> feel pretty good about it. Of course since you know you aren't a
> doctor, you clearly know that you might be wrong, and keep an open
> mind about your current solution, until you go see the doctor. Once
> you go see the doctor and try to explain to them your research and
> theories, some of the doctors respond very negative towards you,
> basically down playing your intelligence because you didn't go to
> eight years of medical school. Just because a person didn't go to
> medical school, doesn't mean that they can research and learn anything
> in the field of medicine. That logic is ridiculous, and as we have and
> will experience in our lives, applies towards other areas of life.

I like this, +1 :)

Once I was in this exact situation, and I couldn't punch the guy
because I didn't have an MBBS to support myself. No offence to you
doctors; you have a respectable profession, but sometimes you have to
realise there are patients who could've joined you in medical school
if they wanted to.

In the same manner, we shouldn't discredit a computer user just
because he's never had much experience with that many operating
systems, that is to say there are actually people who jump straight to
Arch Linux from Windows and face no problems.


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