first time user impressions

[Dan Jacobson]

HB> And of course, if you really do care about this so much, you
HB> should be contributing patches, not just requesting others to
HB> write them to your liking...

I am just trying to help the GNU project by pointing out those little
things a new user would usually sigh and move on about.

As far as patches, well, I did just post one for 2 lines of sed docs.
But usually I just mention a problem because that's the best I can do
given my abilities.

It is because it is often the first time user impression that never
gets conveyed to the maintainers, so that is why I am trying to
capture these impressions and report them for you folks to possibly
improve the docs.

Often a user has a long steam of impressions when first interacting
with a software that aren't conveyed to the author.  Usually this is
because the user's first contact is e.g., with Microsoft software,
where any helpful comments conveyed to that company might end up in a
license investigation, etc.

Asumming a GNU/Linux tidal wave, we want to get these documentation
rough edges smoothed out in time for the many new users.
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