Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on March 01, 2006 01:07 AM
Thank-you! I have never read a better defense to this typical comment when posed with this question (it is catch 22 over and over and over). When is the mentality of LINUX going to change? It is easy to slam Windows... but, as a tool, it is indeed easier for these new folks to handle, and this is the reason why DELL and other companies are not supporting HOME users and LINUX installs on systems.
Hey - Like I commented below in another response to a commnet... I cut a alot of teeth back in the early 1990s as an Alpha/early beta tester of a version of UNIX from Microport systems (with a DOS merge funtion on 486 class system, too slow so went to other options for terminal dos app execution). My level of understanding of how things work is really not that far below par, I can find answers if I don't know how to fix something (however, It drives me nuts because sometimes find that I have waste time on something that should be scripted and easier than it is in a "production level distro").
And as well, I hate to see is that there is a "frat club" mentality with some in the LINUX world that seems to think that users need to 1st go thru "a hell week with no end in sight (very stressful I have discovered) in order to become a member of the happy LINUX using club.
Users will not do this! No hell week. Nope, they will run back to Windows at all cost. At corporations where they have techs on duty to fix things, not a problem. But, at home or in a small business... As the parent has said, and again it was indeed said so well. It has gotta be easier then it is.
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Thank-you! I have never read a better defense.
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on March 01, 2006 01:07 AMHey - Like I commented below in another response to a commnet... I cut a alot of teeth back in the early 1990s as an Alpha/early beta tester of a version of UNIX from Microport systems (with a DOS merge funtion on 486 class system, too slow so went to other options for terminal dos app execution). My level of understanding of how things work is really not that far below par, I can find answers if I don't know how to fix something (however, It drives me nuts because sometimes find that I have waste time on something that should be scripted and easier than it is in a "production level distro").
And as well, I hate to see is that there is a "frat club" mentality with some in the LINUX world that seems to think that users need to 1st go thru "a hell week with no end in sight (very stressful I have discovered) in order to become a member of the happy LINUX using club.
Users will not do this! No hell week. Nope, they will run back to Windows at all cost. At corporations where they have techs on duty to fix things, not a problem. But, at home or in a small business... As the parent has said, and again it was indeed said so well. It has gotta be easier then it is.
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