On Monday 28 February 2005 09:26 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > Julie Sloan wrote: > > On Monday 28 February 2005 12:06 pm, Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >>Now, what I would like to see sometime is changing from Windows 98 to > >> XP compaired to changing from 98 to Linux... > > > > What about it? > > > > I went from 98 to XP last summer, and learned my way around XP while I > > was waiting for my linux CDs to arrive. > > > > Now I make a little "pin money" troubleshooting XP systems in my > > neighborhood, but the only time *this* *here* computer boots into > > Window$ is when I need to print something. That was today, and ...two > > or three weeks ago, I'd guess. > > > > Julie > > Was it harder adapting to XP, or Linux?
Linux was harder, no question about it. I had zero computer experience before my six years of win95 & 98. I was so illiterate in 1998 that I had to use the manual to learn how to power my first computer (a Tosh laptop) on! In win I already knew the internal structure and file system. I knew about tools like the disc defragmenter, and several different ways to navigate the file system, and stupid tricks [...like changing file names -- do you know, in windows, you can't "move," that is to say, "drag and drop" a file with the .exe extension? When you try, you end up with a shortcut to the original location. The stupid trick is to rename the file, ie take away the extension, then move it, then restore its original name. That's a stupid trick. I learned dozens of those by breaking things, which is probaby why I have friends calling my up to troubleshoot for them.] The best advice came from page 17 of my Tosh manual (yes, I remember this ;-) ), which paraphrased, is, "don't be afraid of it. Its just a machine. Chances are you can't mess it up too badly." At that point I put away the manual and started breaking things. And this is my handicap in migrating to linux. In the CL as su you CAN mess it up too badly, and I just don't have the internal discipline to wait until I know what I'm doing to go there. Which is why I'm on my fourth reinstall. ;-) But I'm having fun, and each time I know a little more. Every day I say to myself (about something different each time), "well, I won't do THAT again." Julie --
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