🚀 go-pugleaf

Brian Mueller (mulder78@ix.netcom.com) wrote:
: Chris Saunderson wrote:

: >The simple message is - leave your windows baggage at the door when
: >you enter Linux world. You _should_ be prepared to have to work at
: >getting your machine stable, solid and working. If not, stay
: >out!

: I hate it when people say this. :( Why can't Linux be an OS that
: competes with Windows, providing users with a choice? For that it must
: be more user friendly. :-)

This is precisely why I'm drifting every more quickly toward the *BSD
camp.  I'm quite sick of seeing that Linux has become a trendy "Generation
X" operating system.  The fact of the matter is that Linux is doing more
or less what Microsoft does.  Even though it's not commercial, it
certainly behaves that way.  Everyone is too busy trying to support every
new crap hardware device that comes out on the market, but is not giving
much thought to improving what already exists (ie: the "good" hardware
support).  Do we *really need* plug and pray support under Linux?  I
think not.  Especially judging by the typically poor quality of that
type of hardware to begin with.

I know this has nothing (or little) to do with the topic here, but I"m
on a roll.. please bear with me...

I pick up Linux Journal once in a while...  then I look at SysAdmin 
and Unix Review magazines.  Every time I see some mention of Linux
or some Linux distribution (with the exception of the rather conservative
Slackware) I see something about 'point and click' and 'making Linux
more user friendly'.  

Once again, Microsoft is invading... but this time, they've taken us
with them.

You're quite correct to say that you should just completely forget about
Windows when you start running Unix, because it's a whole different
ball game.  We don't need to introduce the same problems just to be
compatible and trendy.  Much the way that the "World Wide Web" brought
the moron to the internet, and Windows brought the moron to the computer,
Linux will soon follow in bringing the moron to Unix.  I see it here all
the time.  Sure, we were all "new users" at one time, but most of us (at
least the die-hard old-schoolers) learned early on to READ READ READ 
rather than POST POST POST.  

Maybe I'm just bitter...  anyhow, my apologies for the rant... I've been
just dying to get that off my chest.

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