LOL! Fletcher Bonds wrote: > > I'm still not a fan of multi-boot though - especially if what your > solving for is a crash course in Linux. I've seen far too many people > approach Linux this way professing to want to /learn the OS/, but > every time something isn't Windows-intuitive to them or momentarily in > their way.. Windows is only a reboot away and they bail. > I don't know who those people are you are talking about. I'm a recent Windows convert, and I am having no problem with Ubuntu Linux, and I only boot to Windows every three or four weeks now to update it, unless I need to print something. Lexmark does not provide Linux printer drivers for my model of printer, so I have to fall back to Windows for printing only.
Once I discovered the rotating virtual Desktop cube, and Compiz Fusion, I was really hooked on Ubuntu! I can get things done much faster in here because I can move between program so much faster than in Windows with it's slow video handling, and memory hog applications. I have actually found that a very large portion of the keyboard commands and context menus for editing,are nearly identical, so there isn't much difference there. The bash shell however, is a vast improvement over the old batch language of DOS, and can take some learning with it's different syntax rules conventions, but it's doable with some study of the man pages and online tutorials. Actually I've found Linux to be much easier to learn than Windows, for the simple fact that I am able to examine even the program source code for anything within it, to learn how things function. Almost every program installed in Ubuntu also includes documentation in html format in the /usr/share/docs/ folder structure, making it very easy to learn about the different parts of the system and it's software. Even the Linux kernel itself has installable documentation that covers it's operation and program code in detail. > IF (big if here) Learning Linux is the objective. You have to first > accept as a given that Linux can do everything Windows can (and much > of better than Windows can) and make the switch. Do a full Linux > install and make a commitment to hit those Not-the-way-Windows-does-it > moments and prevail (Google knows all - just ask it). Otherwise > you'll spend most of your time in Windows with a chunk of your drive > dedicated to an OS that doesn't often see the light of day. I feel differently, for the reason that having more than one operating system on your computer can be a real life saver. If one of them breaks, you can use the other to research how to fix it, and sometimes even do the fixing from the other system, like getting rid of viruses in Windows from Linux. It keeps the viruses from running so they can not hide themselves. Just make sure that if you install an ext2/3 file system driver in Windows to be able to read the Linux file system, that you immediately turn off System Restore in Windows for that drive, to prevent it from creating a System Volume Information folder on it. Also, do not modify any of the file types that System Restore monitors, on any drive you have it set to monitor, from within Linux, or System Restore will declare all restore points corrupt when it finds the un-monitored changes. Later, Ray Parrish -- Human reviewed index of links about the computer http://www.rayslinks.com Poetry from the mind of a Schizophrenic http://www.writingsoftheschizophrenic.com/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. To post a message, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit our group at http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
