Martijn Brekhof wrote:

> What is the difference between a "user", and a teenage school kid or
> undergraduate student?

School kids and undergraduates are a captive audience that can be tortured ;^)

Seriously, the stuff in the introductory objectives is nice and important but 
office/web/email-type »users« can go through a long and fulfilling life 
perfectly well without any of this, just like they do on other operating 
systems that may not even come with the tools we're talking about here. With 
current general-utility Linux distributions they never actually need to touch 
a shell, so the content of the objectives goes right past them. (On the other 
hand, I'd expect budding *system administrators* to do whatever it takes to 
pass LPIC-1, at least, and not bother with the introductory certificate.)

School kids and undergraduates, however, are used to learning things that are 
character-building and do them good in the long run even if they can't see 
their point and hate them when they do need to learn them. This serves as an 
automatic excuse for shell commands, regular expressions, etc.

Anselm
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