“When I came across the word ‘noob’ or ‘newbie’ I found that
most of the self claimed beginners knew more than what I would
interpret the meaning of the word. A noob is someone like me.
Someone who honestly doesn’t know much about computers, at least
not the technical aspect of it. Someone who will need to be taught
and explained to as if I was a little child. That’s a noob! And I
am proud to be one–a real newbie. Perhaps someday I will be able
to help other people but so far I am quite happy to achieve the
simplest task 😉 I was introduced to Fedora Core 3 when someone
close to me thought I should give it a try. ‘Sure’ I said and he
started installing it for me. I was feeling excited about trying it
out as I had heard so much about it. Even my little 6 year old boy
was using it and spoke about it with fast words and gestures. And
then I got the computer with the finished product installed, my
laptop containing the treasure… the distro I would stick with,
Fedora Core Release 3…”
Linux-Noob: Windows Girl Goes Fedora
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