Hello Simon, Thursday, September 23, 2004, 9:43:27 AM, you wrote:
SM> This is a very popular misunderstanding, made by people who have used SM> Windows for a long time. Think about this: You have spend 5 or 10 SM> years beeing a Windows expert, and knows how to do everything. Then SM> you try Linux (with a GUI), and suddenly everything is done SM> differently. It would be just as hard going the other way, from Linux SM> to Windows. well, I DID start with DOS, not windows, though it was still MS-DOS :) so I learned command line even in a DOS environment. Then came dosshell for dos 5.0 , then finally Windows 3.1 ( lets not talk about 3.0). But at the same time I was also learning AT&T UNIX, and this was even before Unix SYS V/386. It was also command line, no GUI. SM> You can see it the same way as when you get a new VCR: You have spend SM> 5 years figuring out how to program the old one, and when you get a SM> new one you can't program it. I still don't know how to do that and I've had the VCR longer than that! >> Recent "popularization" of Linux, SM> I will not call the Linux GUI (called X) "recent". It have existed for SM> many years, and actually I saw X with a scinable GUI 5 years before SM> Microsoft launched Windows XP. and I also run 2 shells for my Windows XP box, Litestep and LDE(X): http://sourceforge.net/projects/ldexforwindows/ built for windows, to look more like a Linux X GUI :) SM> Which is good. When you build a lot of graphics into the core of an SM> operating system, there is way more thing which can go wrong. The SM> Linux core does not force you to use a certain interface - Windows SM> does. you can get to a command line in both windows and Linux. You can do MORE in the Linux environment, if you know what you are doing. Without a GUI shell, you are severely limited in what you can do with windows, most apps need the gui to run. I learned UNIX admin when there was no graphical interface, it was all command line. even the VI editor was command driven, and there is even a VIM multi-window VI editor for windows! but ( to be on topic) you can't run TB in Linux without running Wine, or cross-office, or whatever that interface is, so you can run windows app under Linux. So for now I stick with TB & XP. -- Best regards, Paul ________________________________________________ Current version is 3.00.00 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
