On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote: > Without a doubt. Why not educate your friends about how their PCs work? > A fundamental problem today is that people don't understand the "how" and > "why". To attempt to protect the user from how a PC operates is IMHO to > do much more harm than good.
I agree entirely. And I also think that most of the added benefit of linux over windows is not available if you just run some office suite under X instead of under windows. I use linux exclusively because the time it took me to learn the real tools -- grep, wc, emacs, perl, latex, bash, etc. -- has paid off in spades when it comes to day-to-day efficiency. But that logic is obscured when you just use, say, koffice under X instead of msoffice under windows. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Andrew J Perrin - http://www.unc.edu/~aperrin Assistant Professor of Sociology, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] * andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
