One should always expect new users to ask dumb questions, after all, they are new at this. They haven’t yet learned how to speak the language properly to know how to ask the smart questions. Teaching involves answering the same “simple” questions over and over. Somebody did it for you back in the day. And somebody did it for me.

Not being able to teach and guide a newbie is a skill issue on your part just as much as their not knowing how to ask smart questions is.