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Originally Posted by iamthewalrus View Post
Not very realistic. I know many people with a higher education who wouldn't know how to use a file manager, let alone OO Programming. Something with right-brainedness. And doing copy- and paste commands from some how-to doesn't teach anyone much. By the time they need it again they have to look it up, and if they wrote the commands down chances are that they have become outdated.

Kind of the same as with financial knowledge. How much do you know about mortage, investing, insurance? Probably just enough to get by like most do (including me), unless you work in finance.
This is my point exactly. I do love to use my n810 but if I would have know that I would spend months just trying to get it to the point that most online users have there's then it may have caused me to reconsider. The only thing is that i do enjoy troubleshooting and problemsolving. Hell, I still dont know how to use xterm that much at all. In fact in another thread im still trying to find out how to uninstall the stupid vista and OSX theme's that i downloaded when I first bought my n810. These are the sort of problems that would turn most possible customers away from the IT world! Before you do much with the n8x0 you better know what your doing or you could possibly cause havock with you $400+ pocket device. This is a process that a lot of people just dont have time for or just dont want to painfully go through.