I've migrated through several OS worlds over the decades. IBM's
universe had a significant amount of acronyms that required careful
tongue maneuvers to pronounce ... "DASD" was one of the easiest, as was
"ISAM" ["Incredibly Slow Access Method"]. EB-se-dick, a little harder.
Eventually, Unix became essential and I grep-ped and glob-bed, and
struggled with regular expressions about as much as I had to with
partial differential equations. When I retired, I decided to learn how
to read Russian with all the free time I was going to have. Russian was
much easier than Unix. The free time never materialized.
73,
Fred ["Skip"] K6DGW
Sparks NV DM09dn
Washoe County
On 6/11/2018 9:34 PM, Don Wilhelm wrote:
If you are not good at deciphering cryptic messages with geek words,
don't use Linux.
I do wish it were better, but Linux seems to be steeped in "geekdom
language" - if you are not educated in the language, you do not
deserve to be part of our culture.
Until Linux produces plain text language for errors and such messages,
it will not be a major player in the computer operating systems.
Windows has its share of cryptic messages, but at least it is in plain
text and does not often refer to "gobbledygook" that is only
understood by Windows geeks.
I have tried Linux and have been stiffed by questions to the forums
saying essentially "if you don't understand the language, go away".
I am not a computer dummy - I understand DOS, but the Linux language
is a thing unto itself.
Ubuntu and Linux Mint have reduced the Linux install process
difficulty, but have not tackled the cryptic messages that can result.
If you only want to do only email and web surfing, then Linux can work
well for you, but anything else can be daunting with cryptic requests
to enter a nonsensical string of commands for "who knows what results"
and be shamed by the forum geeks who blame you for not understanding
the language.
73,
Don W3FPR
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