Yesterday, one of my friends had to format his hard drive because Windows had one of those weird crashes and it didn’t even start up anymore, so he told me he was going to install Windows and then Ubuntu, he asked me some questions, some really simple and common ones which Linux newbies ask, even I did those questions when I first used Linux, so I thought this was normal. So, when he finished installing it, he told me that Ubuntu had a nice desktop, very organized and really fast, He even said that he liked Ubuntu because it starts faster then Windows Vista, about 15 seconds on Ubuntu and 1 minute in Vista, so I told him to get use to the Linux world which is a lot faster then Windows. Everything still normal here, he asked me how to install programs on Ubuntu and I told him to search for the Synaptic Package Manager, and he found it and did a simple search for a program and it worked, after that I told him there was an even more simple way of installing new programs which is the Add/Remove Programs on the applications menu, he said thank you and logged off for a couple of hours.

Now here comes the problems. He had to install a program which he only found on the internet and it came in a tar.gz archive, and he asked me how to install a tar.gz archive, and I did a search on Google on “How to install a tar.gz file”, and gave him the Google link and told him that Google is his friend. He saw some search results and now here comes the the weirdest thing I’ve ever heard in my life, he asked me where to put the commands, well I really didn’t know what to say, I tried to keep my nerves down and politely told him to open the console. He successfully installed the program and once again he thanked me, I told him not to ask me anymore of those weird questions like where to put the commands, and “Google it” before you ask anyone of what your question is. The next problem was that sometimes his NTFS partitions weren’t auto mounting on Ubuntu, he asked me why was that, and I said “Google it dude”, when I said this I thought he got mad at me or something, he stopped talking to me for a couple of minutes and so I asked him why didn’t he Google for it before asking me any questions, and he replied: ” Its a lot easier if I ask you about the problems I’m having” and I said “Man, you Windows guys are really lazy bums, always depending of the little Linux guys, I’m not going to answer anymore of your questions, Life is hard to so get use to it”, so he got really mad and told me no f*** off, and blocked me.

Now, I’m going to ask, did I do the right choice?, Is Linux that hard to understand that not even Google has the solution for your questions? Have you encountered any of these Windows Lazy people?