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| Apr 26, 2014 at 1:39 | comment | added | Taz D. | Guru is just a term or a 'marketing phrase' like you labeled it, widely used in American English with no negative connotation. But you are right about low self-esteem when it comes to ask more experienced users a technical question. In the end it is like this, AskUbuntu.com proves to be an useful and quite friendly place for asking questions and learning how to optimize your Ubuntu OS for daily use. But it is limited to Ubuntu only, and it makes you feel sometimes like you live isolated on some island instead of being part of a larger community of people with common interests. | |
| Apr 26, 2014 at 0:53 | history | edited | LiveWireBT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 26, 2014 at 0:51 | comment | added | LiveWireBT | 1. You are right. :) 2. The other reason why I don't like descriptions such as guru is, that they unnecessarily generate low self-esteem. If you take a look around, you will find that the examples you gave have a completely different background in reality. Also the notion to know and master everything is very obstructive when it comes to computers (I'm deliberately leaving out the word science). Improving a question or answer on the other side, or giving a better explanation is a very cool hack where some experts are not very good at. | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 22:30 | comment | added | Taz D. | Hello, LiveWireBT! I bet you are a huge fan of AC/DC, at least this is what your nick suggests. I like them too, a lot. And thank you for helping me to understand what FLOSS means (Free/Libre Open Source Software). I used Google just now, and find it out. About the so-called 'Linux gurus', I know they are out there, fortunately for most of us, and what I meant was that these people are trained professionals, and can put together or rebuild a linux distro from scratch. It is people like them that made Linux available for the average user and also made AskUbuntu and other web projects possible. | |
| Apr 25, 2014 at 17:34 | history | answered | LiveWireBT | CC BY-SA 3.0 |