> I used to think as you do, and back then GNU/Linux made no sense at all to me. > Today, I look back at the DOS/Windows systems I used to use and they all seem > haphazard and illogical.
10 or more years in my DOS Dupe days, I had a friend teach me by e-mail the joys of FTP. FTP sites ran on Unix, of course, and that was my only exposure to anything non-DOS at the time. Anyway, to get a directory listing of everything available, this friend told me (again, by e-mail) to use "ls-lR". This is what the Dupe saw: it used "ls" instead of "dir", it used a dash instead of a slash, and the capitalization mattered! I can not tell you how foreign this one stupid, itty-bitty command was to me. I could not come to grips with something so different, so I didn't even _try_ it!! I continued to "dir" through directories manually. Looking back, I can only bow my head in self-disgust. But the lesson is a valuable one: Thinking that DOS/Win is any more logical, intuitive, or superior than any other OS is a mental prison. 'Course, when I figured this out, I bucked the whole establishment, learning Linux and the Dvorak keyboard layout :-) Miark P.S. Want added security on your workstation? Learn the Dvorak layout. Nobody will be able to do squat on your machine :-D
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