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Jason Stokes <j.stokes@bohm.anu.edu.au> writes:

> Manfred Bartz wrote:
>
> > Jason Stokes <j.stokes@bohm.anu.edu.au> writes:
> >
> > > There are lots of people who haven't coped with Linux very well.
> > > Look, there are people out there who do everything as root.
> 
> > Like myself.  I have taken on Linux a year ago, tossed Windows off the
> > hard disk 3 month ago and I have not yet been able to figure out a
> > practical way of working on a user level.  However, I expect that
> > within the next 6 month that will change.
> 
> I rest my point re: many Linux newbies doing everything wrong.

Ok, I know this is not the recommended way of doing things. 
So how do I do it right?

> > The beauty of linux is that you not only get to play with the toy -
> > you get to put it together.  And you get the satisfaction of having
> > mastered a difficult skill.
> 
> Big deal.  This was a major marketing angle of the Sirius Cybernetics
> Corporation in "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy", if you remember. 
> The frustration of using the system is entirely masked by the
> satisfaction of getting the system to work at all.  In other words,
> Linux's fundamental design flaws are entirely masked by its superficial
> design flaws.

Big deal --- exactly.  A VERY BIG DEAL.  To get that satifaction and
to be able to contribute something like that to others and to see them
empowered is just priceless.  That's part of what life is about isn't
it?

I am in charge of MY life and I am quite able to cope with a
challenge.  I don't want to be mollycoddled or patronized in any way.
People like Gates or anybody else who wants to "protect" me are just
part of the problem.

   ===========

We could go on about this forever.  Maybe another way of looking at it
is asking "Which side am I on?"

You are a Unix user and somehow you got to the point of seeing the
advantages and power of Unix.  How would it occur to you if you
allowed yourself to drop your cynicism and use your energy to
facilitate the enlightenment of Unix newbies like myself?

-- 
Manfred Bartz <mbartz@werple.net.au>