On Mon, 09 Aug 2004 13:07:35 +1200 Roger Searle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Aside from knowing (pretty much) no programming, I can do almost anything in > windows, yet find myself almost a complete learner with matters *nix. The > learning curve is steep, in my experience, as the differences are > significant. There is a learning curve, however you pretty soon find, IMHO, that its windows that does it differently, and pretty soon you will be wondering why the hell you can't do such and such in windows because its undocumented, proprietary or simply not doable. You'll wonder why windows has to reboot three times to update some software whereas linux almost never does (kernel excepted). You'll wonder why you need to reboot windows 95/98 to change some simple networking parameters that are fixed with a network services restart in linux. you'll wonder why you have to trawl through binary configuration files like the registry, and you'll wonder why grep doesn't work on the registry. In summary i used to be comfortable with windows and frustrated with linux when I first started, now its the other way round. >With lots of reading, attending the gatherings when I can, and > help here in response to my "dumb questions", I can look back now and see > that I am getting there, even if slower than I would like. My main problem > is not enough time in the day to play with this stuff - so patience is > required. -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
