begin quoting Tracy R Reed as of Wed, Jun 27, 2007 at 11:51:18AM -0700: > 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 was fortunate. I had a different path: PRIMOS->Amiga->UNIX -- but this means that I suffer more than most on "modern" Linux environments (and why I react so poorly so some of the new features). -- I still miss the PRIMOS ACL system, despite having forgotton most of it. Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
