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From: Jason Stokes
Date: Wed, 09 Apr 1997 00:00

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On Sun, 06 Apr 1997 11:02:04 GMT, John Summerfield <summer@iinet.net.au> wrote:

>I've used several systems, ranging from enormous mainframes to a System 
>    80.
>
>Of all the systems I've used, Linux has the steepest learning curve. It's 
>    far from the most friendly and certainly not the most powerful.
>
>I'm not about to remove it from my computers, but neither am I about to
>    ditch OS/2 in its favour:  to do so would mean I spend more time
>    fighting the computer than using it.
>
>Linux has its strengths and advantages. Ease of use is not among them.

John, you are a man after my own heart.

Coming from an OS/2 background myself, I found linux many many times harder
to use.  It might be heresy to suggest so, but Linuxers can learn a lot from
OS/2, NeXT and Windows NT.

-- 

Jason Stokes: j.stokes@bohm.anu.edu.au
Ph: +61 (06) 291 93 84

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Date: 1997/04/09
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