What just came to my mind when reading a report of a user who had problems switching from
Windows XP to Linux is that a lot of switching users have to be re-educated with respect to reading
error messages. I see lots of people who seem to have developed a reflex to click away error
messages as fast as possible. While that might be a useful strategy on Windows, these people should
consider actually reading errormessages since they in most cases tell what’s wrong. That seems to be
quite bad about Windows – useless errors messages.
So my advice of the day for newly converted users: Read the error
messages rather than trying to get rid of them as fast as possible. They might aswell tell
you what’s wrong and what you can do about it. Besides, asking someone to help you only saying
“It showed some error!” is not likely going to help.