"bhaaluu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Why people even give MS any mind-share is beyond me....
For the same reason most people don't buy kit cars. Linux is a great hobbyist environment and if you want your OS to be a hobby then use Linux you will learn a lot about your computers. But if you just want to unpack the box turn it on and start writing documents, editing photos etc use Windows (or MacOS). I've been working professionally with Unix and Unix-like OS for over 20 years now but when I bought a laptop for my own use I bought a Mac - Unix without the pain. > easy. Once you become familiar with GNU/Linux, you find it is much > easier than MS-Windows! Sorry, I can't agree. Linux has a lot of rough edges where you still need to open text files and eit them, stop and start services etc That is never going to be easier for the average user than clicking a few boxes in a dalog. Linux is a hobbyist OS, it allows you all the power and flexibility but at the expense of exposing great swathes of the under-belly of the PC. Most users simply don't want to know that stuff and don't have the time to learn. Fortunately for us Python runs on both so the readers of this forum have the luxury of choosing which to use. As a programmer there is a much stronger case for using Linux because it does allow far greater access and therefore makes many programming tasks easier. Plus nearly everything is controlled by text files - which are prorammatically easy to manipulate. But for ordinary users Linux remains complex. IMHO of course! :-) -- Alan Gauld Author of the Learn to Program web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - [email protected] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
