GNU/Linux for Windows Users
The And Bytes Computer Club is holding a series of workshops on Linux for Windows Users. These are notes for a potential curriculum.
Goals
- To get people familiar enough with Linux to use it as their every-day operating system
- To instill a degree of self-sufficiency
- Each participant should acquire permanent skills to perform daily tasks such as
- Browsing the Web
- Reading and sending e-mail
- Creating written documents
- Creating a greeting card
- Each participant should have sufficient knowledge to
- Acquire additional software
- Recognize when something isn't working correctly
- Know where to turn for answers
- ...but not necessarily apply the fixes
- Each participant should experience these skills (but it's OK if these skills are not retained past the course)
- Creation of bootable media (DVD or USB)
- Installation of Linux
- Set up a printer
- Configuring desktop appearance
- Traversing the file system (/home, /var/log, /etc )
- Use a terminal and run commands (ls, lsblk, top)
- Each participant should acquire permanent skills to perform daily tasks such as
- To understand the culture of Linux, Free Software, and the community (or at least be exposed to it)
It is not a goal to understand Linux at any deeper level than "I turn on my computer and get work done". If we get into file systems, mount points, load averages and shell scripting we've gone off-track.
