On Thursday 10 June 2004 08:18 pm, Teilhard Knight wrote: | > Teilhard Knight wrote: | > <snip> | > | | | Indeed. Although most of the things you say are new to me, I can appreciate | command-line Linux is a much more powerful OS than DOS ever was. To be | honest, I feel impatient for seeing the end of the Micro$soft empire and | its blue-screen world. Maybe that's why I would like to see in Linux only | improvements over $ill Gates toys and a friendly environment. However, the | more I learn about Linux, the less I picture it like an OS for a secretary, | for example. I agree with someone who said that $ill Gates has a stronghold | in his Control Panel. But that doesn't mean I cannot appreciate the | advantages of Linux over Windows, and the speed it is evolving. | | Cordially, | | Teilhard | | -------------------------------------------------
Once you get it setup (and quite often--depending on hardware--it is setup right on install) anyone can use it, and use it well. My wife's computer was converted to Linux a couple of years ago and she has no trouble with it whatsover, across a couple of upgrades from 8.2 to 9.1, which she is using now. As she told a friend a few months ago, "Linux is easy to use--it must be if I can do it". As for myself, I was a network administrator back in the NT 4 days--what Linux has now is far simpler than NT was then. I can't say about W2K or XP administration, but I think just keeping up with the updates for security vulnerabilities appears to be far more trouble than I want to go to. Contrary to appearances, the famous Windows ease-of-use is really a facade because the administration of the system is a nightmare. I learned back in my day that I couldn't just install a security fix because there was a chance, a very good chance, that the fix would break some essential application. From what I see on the newsgroups, it doesn't appear that this Windows feature has changed much over the years. e
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