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Quoting Neil Winchurst <neil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: <snip> > Thanks for the answer. I was just giving my installation of VB as an > example. There must be many situations where a newbie to Linux will get > lost and need help. I was just suggesting that there is a need for > plenty of people to help newcomers if we are going to work at getting > people to move across to Linux, whatever distro. > > Neil Winchurst There's plenty of free and commercial support available. For instance, there's the local LUG mailing lists, distro mailing lists and online web forums (both official ones and unofficial ones), documentation, magazines. I think it's just a case of getting the message out there to Linux newbies. Chances are if they've heard about Linux and want to give it a try, they will be able to do a web search for help, or *hopefully* have someone knowledgeable to ask (rather than the local Windows 'expert' whom in some cases doesn't know sod all). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html