Comment Re:Arrghh (Score 1) 744
"It is if they can't figure out why the hell some obscure flag set in /etc keeps them from doing something."
These same users would have just as much trouble figuring out why some obscure check box in Control Panel keeps them from doing something.
I was running Linux before I was running Windows (used DOS before that). So to me, Linux is easier and friendlier to use. I think if you took two average Joe Users and set one down in front of Windows and the other in front of Linux, both would learn and become proficient in their respective OS's just as quickly (or slowly as the case may be).
I work at an ISP. I've lost count how many users I've told to bring in their systems so that I could setup a dialup networking connection because they were so helpless they couldn't even be walked through it. Most of them are afraid to click anything on the screen because the last time they did it they ended up taking their machine back to the shop so Windows could be reinstalled.
Anyway, guess I'm just feeding the troll.
These same users would have just as much trouble figuring out why some obscure check box in Control Panel keeps them from doing something.
I was running Linux before I was running Windows (used DOS before that). So to me, Linux is easier and friendlier to use. I think if you took two average Joe Users and set one down in front of Windows and the other in front of Linux, both would learn and become proficient in their respective OS's just as quickly (or slowly as the case may be).
I work at an ISP. I've lost count how many users I've told to bring in their systems so that I could setup a dialup networking connection because they were so helpless they couldn't even be walked through it. Most of them are afraid to click anything on the screen because the last time they did it they ended up taking their machine back to the shop so Windows could be reinstalled.
Anyway, guess I'm just feeding the troll.
