On Wed, June 27, 2007 11:51 am, Tracy R Reed wrote: > Stewart Stremler wrote: >> I suspect a large number of "Linux people" Learned How Computers Worked >>>From MSWindows[tm] and when they jumped ship to Linux, they didn't jump >> ship from the MS attitudes as well. > > You are right. I remember when I first found Linux and being very > confused. No drive letters? Mounting disks? Format vs mkfs? Home > directories and individual user accounts? It was all very strange and > annoying. But at the same time intriguing. But over the next year or two > I got used to it and before I knew it someone was foolish enough to pay > me to admin their boxes. But it definitely took a while to shake off the > MS attitude. > >
I think you're being rough on yourself. What you're describing is everyone's experience with the first venture away from the familiar. You don't know how I used to curse vi when it was new to me (or maybe you do). The M$ attitude that disgusts me is a subset of the whole authoritarian, sheeple, I-need-something-powerful-to-fawn-before mind set. I don't see that in just about anyone on this list. Of course, there _is_ a degree of self-selection here ;-) -- Lan Barnes SCM Analyst Linux Guy Tcl/Tk Enthusiast Biodiesel Brewer -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
