Re: Experience the New Windows

[Suresh Ramasubramanian <mallet@xxxxxxx>]

BTW, here's the main hassle with linux from a "clued newbie" perspective...
reposted from a newsgroup I read

> Carl Tucker wrote:
>> Steve Sobol wrote:
  
>>> From 'Suresh Ramasubramanian':
>>> 
>>> you have seen the local lug mailing lists / linux ngs haven't you?  lots of
>>> people who can't for the life of them figure out how to use linuxconf to set up
>>> their box (which is bad as it is - linuxconf is badly broken ...)

>> Then they should be educated.
>> There's no excuse.

> Ahem.  Lots of people can't set up their box properly BECAUSE linuxconf is
> broken/a piece of junk.
> First:  I'm a linux fan.  I use it at home, like it, work real good, last long
> time, etc.
> However:  I would NEVER go live on the 'net with it with my current level of
> knowledge.  I run across Something I Should Know About every day, frequently in
> this NG.
> Now, I like to think I'm not an idiot.  (I operate nuclear power plants, fer
> gods sake).  Linux is just the wrong amount of complexity:  easy enough for you
> to think you've got it, and complex enough for you to be wrong.
> I realize this is hard for full-time hackers to grok, but people with OTHER
> jobs just don't have the time to read O'Reilly's SENDMAIL and the like, and to
> keep up with the bug reports and patch cycle.  That doesn't make them idiots.
> What does make them idiots is not realizing thet what they really need is a
> full time hacker to do it for them before they go live.

	-s

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