🚀 go-pugleaf

"Jonathan" wrote

| I don't call fatal exception errors and general
| protection faults user friendly.

When is the last time you worked with windows? Windows 98, Me or 2000
work on about 80% of the PC's out there, without producing any of such
errors. IF windows is raising these exceptions it _almost always_ has to
do with mismanagment (ignorant luser) or a bad installation.

| I like the fact that Linux works unless I do
| something wrong.Linux tells me plenty about
| why something is not working so the next time
| I can do it right (and it works reliably from
| then on).

It does keep working after you set everything right once, that's true.
As for error messages, most of them are pretty clear but if you start
going into things deeper they get less obvious. Also all linux messages
and procedures imply basic 'computer knowledge' on user-level. Windows
can be installed _and_ used by someone who can barely distinguish the
power on/of button on his PC, something linux is - still - not able to
do.

| > For me, NT/2000 is "good enough". Sure, any M$
| > product is far from perfect, but Linux is stuck
| > in the goddamn stone age. I don't want to type
| > an 83-character string every time I wanna run
| > a damn program.

he/she never heard of scripts?

| Heh.  You actually have to type less in Linux than
| in Windows.
[snip]
| I get sick of typing the whole filename in Windows ..

I think you are missing the point. The original poster ment that in
windows he doesn't have to use the command line prompt. Windows has tab
completion too though, if you type in your command in the 'address' bar
of the Explorer it works the same way as linux, even better.

Don't get me wrong, I prefer linux too, but one has to realize both are
ment for different kind of users, and if a user doesn't have much
knowledge about his computer and the concepts behind it he's still
better of with windows. Both are good operating systems - imo - and both
have their flaws. Windows can be a bitch to maintain and linux is a
bitch to set up. Still waiting for Winux or Lindows :)