Quoting Reg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ummmm does anyone ever really get proficient with windows :-) I doubt it. I seriously doubt it. First thing to ask of course, is which iteration of MS Windows? Which source tree? > I have been using it since the very first version came out and it seems > just > when I get almost proficient they bring out a new version. Recently I > finally made the jump from win 98 to XP and for several weeks I was > tearing > out what little hair I had left on my head. But I must say now that I > am > used to it I actually like it. A week after I bought a new computer with > XP > media edition on it guess what I read somewhere there was a new windows > version in the pipeline called Vista. And the fact the they have spectacularly bad luck in brand names, is brought out by the Vista Beta. Speak it quickly enough and you'll see what I mean. I couldn't believe it at first, but for a Marketing company, they seem clueless beyond measure. > > I myself really like Open Suse Linux which is very graphical and very > similar to windows. I have no idea what other flavours of Linux look SuSE and Mandrake and Red Hat install pretty much the same - which is to say, with a minimum of fuss. It gets more complex with Slackware and Debian. But nowhere as near as complex as Sun's OpenSolaris. Of course, installing SLS was an interesting experiment. I'd never come across a disk partition editor of quite so much complexity - or power - OS/2's was the most powerful one I'd used previously - MS-DOS and Windows 3.x were child's place by comparison. Wesley Parish > like or > how they compare in ease of installation or use. But I must say that my > transition to usuing Suse was way quicker than from 98 to XP, until my > micde > dies on it and it took me several days of mucking around d to revive > the > poor little bugger. > > > > Kind Regards > Reg > > "Sharpened hands are happy hands. "Brim the tinfall with mirthful bands" - A Deepness in the Sky, Vernor Vinge "I me. Shape middled me. I would come out into hot!" I from the spicy that day was overcasked mockingly - it's a symbol of the other horizon. - emacs : meta x dissociated-press
