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bill_h wrote:

>> If you really want to learn to use the linux operating system, you'll
>> have to do so without using fancy applications to do things for you
>> and get your hands dirty with the command line.
> 
> Which is precisely why linux aint gunna challenge Windows any time
> soon. If you've got to use the command line to make the fucking thing
> work, it aint worth the effort. Maybe I'm lazy, but  I gave up trying
> to understand command line stuff with Dos 5. 
> 
> I keep playing with Linux and while it is getting very good, I still
> find it frustrating at times. I fail to comprehend why I should have
> to understand arcane gibberish to get the bloody thing to work. 

I agree. It is a problem - although it's not nearly as much of a problem 
as it used to be. In fact, nowadays, with a decent distribution, you 
don't have to use the command line at all so long as you don't want to 
do anything weird and your hardware is compatible. I've been using the 
linux command line for 14 years now and i'm totally at home with it, but 
i could have installed Fedora 9 on my laptop (a Thinkpad R61), and got 
everything working properly, without using the command line once. That's 
not always the case, of course.

However, you do have to know what you're doing if you're going to run 
linux without problems - just like you do if you want to run windows 
without problems. The idea that people who are completely technically 
incompetent can run windows successfully is complete fantasy. When they 
do it's almost always a disaster - even if they don't always realise it 
straight away. Command line or no command line, it takes a fairly high 
level of skill to keep a computer working properly, whether it's running 
windows or linux.

> I would love to divest myself of Windows, maybe one day. 

Unless you need to use some specific software package to do something 
that really can't be done with linux, then the only thing stopping you 
divesting yourself of it now is you.


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