On 11/10/06, Andrew Lentvorski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Absolutely. Out of 30+ CS students I taught last year, exactly *1* used the main Unix system. Everybody else was Windows, Windows, Windows. The problem is that we teach *Windows* and *Office* for 6+ years of secondary school, now. That's a real inertia to overcome. And, let's face it, all OS's have a learning curve. If you've already climbed the Windows learning curve, it takes quite a bit to move you off of it.
Ten years ago, I had a CS professor named Jeff Ely at Lewis & Clark College tell me, "if you learn Windows, you need to relearn the whole OS every 2 or 3 years. If you learn UNIX, it has a steeper learning curve, but you just learn it once, and you have a career for life." Do you guys think Linux still has a steeper learning curve than Windows? Though we've come some distance in the desktop arena, I'm still asking myself if I even want all the management types learning enough to be dangerous. -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
