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Josh Saddler wrote:

> Changing it will not help the most central problem
> we're up against: that users simply *do not read* documents, period.
> It's not in their nature. No amount of restructuring or other
> handholding will change that for them; they have to take the plunge into
> the technical world of Gentoo on their own.

In the college freshman course I taught with the Handbook over the past few
years, everyone read the Handbook ( I know because I was in the computer lab
looking over their shoulders while they were reading it ) but only around 2 in
each class of 25 were able to successfully install Gentoo without significant
assistance.

My observation of students that attempt to install Gentoo on their own (
outside of this class and without assistance ) is that very few of them are
successful.

I agree that most people do not read the documentation and this is why they
fail.  My experience indicates, however, that a significant percentage of
people are reading the Handbook but are still failing because the materials in
the Handbook are not meeting their needs.

Ted
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