Interesting. I think the posts contains a lot of useful information, however I believe this kind of response is detrimental toward user acquisition.

It's very much akin to the tech guy walking into a sale's person's office, to fix their immediate need. The tech guy is thinking all he has to do is teach the person to think for themselves, problem solved. All the sales guy is thinking is is "oh god, please don't teach me anything".

Personally I find locate and slocate very useful in linux to find the files I am after. Going over these might be more useful. That or whatever third party tools are available, with a UI and good UX, to achieve a similar goal.