Re:That's not FUD Ti-MAY (Score 2, Insightful)

Linux and Windows NT are equally easy to use on the desktop after the sysadmin has set up the network and provided the users with a graphic desktop that they log into and don't have to worry about anything else besides their work. However, on a single pc basis if there is no sysadmin and the user has to do all the admin themselves then Linux is a lot harder to use than Windows. Most people never have to use advanced command line operations in Windows, they never have to configure programs by editing text files by hand and they never have to compile anything. On another note, the term hard to use could be used in different ways and a lot of times hard to used is confused with hard to learn. For example linux using command line may be hard to learn in the first place, but it is a lot easier to type a few commands to do an admin job than go through countless clicks and menu choices. Shifting a pile of huge stones from one place to another is hard to do by yourself, but isn't hard to learn how to do at all, whereas the opposite is true for the above linux example.