The new user experience

[John Murphy]

"Micheal Peters" <mikepeters at epnix.com> wrote:

>NOTE: I fully intend to be long winded with this one and include a bit of
>history too, if you don't really care about what a total n00b sees, stop
>reading, delete this message (and any subsequent messages) and go on with
>your normal life.  Otherwise sit back, and enjoy :-)

Someone once said that the newbie experience is extremely valuable to
those who are interested in making the experience easier/better.

>Also note, supposively English is my primary language; actually Bad English
>would be a better description.  I'll try to maintain proper spelling and
>punctuation, but I can't give any guarantees.

It's not too bad.  You just make one or two common mistakes like using
"where" where you meant "were".  The first is a place like 'somewhere'
and the second indicates past tense, like 'we were having fun'.  Also:

"There" is a place, like 'The grass is greener over there'.
"Their" is something belonging to someone like 'their opinion'.
"They're" is short for they are... Anyway, enough of that.

I enjoyed your story and I thank you for taking the time to write it up
and post it here.  It took me back to my first experiences with FreeBSD
and I look forward to reading part two.

This sort of thing is exactly on topic for this list.

-- 
John.