On Thursday 10 June 2004 11:45 pm, Erylon Hines wrote: > 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. > Think of two cars one is a old junker with a lot of chrome and the hood welded shut thats Windows the other car is a lite weight tank that is easy to modify gets a hundred miles to the gallon and hardly ever breaks down (to paraphrase Neil Stephenson ) > e
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