Tom Jacobs wrote:
>
> My two cents:
>
> Being a brand new Linux user, I still wonder "hmmm why
> do I have to mount my CDROM just to use it. Why can't
> I just click on a picture or type d:\".
> While I am no lover of M$ products in any way. Out of
> the box, with no other knowledge of computers,
> Winbloze wins hands down in the usability department.
> I haven't had a chance to use KDE yet because I still
> have to figure out how to get it to connect to my "X
> server" and other such stuff. It's a learning curve
> yeah, and I welcome the challenge. But even DOS's
> command line is easier for a newbie to figure out.
> I have yet to have Linux break on me, or hang even.
> Being an experienced Winbloze troubleshooter makes me
> yearn for something more stable.
Here we have one good example of different opinions between people about
usability. You are used to the Windows world of instlaling and trouble
shooting. Know that world like the back of your hand and thus find it an
easy way to "do business" so to say. I personally have not been very
much involved with Windows installation in quite some time and because
of this, I find the Linux way much easyer. When I think of a windows
install, I think of about 4 hours sitting in front of a computer
clicking buttons with a mouse, multiple rebooting session and crossing
my fingers that it will work this time. Installing Linux on the other
hand is for me like a walk in the park. OK. Now Ive got about 20-30
minutes installing to do. First, I enter som info, press the OK button
and wait a while. Next I configure X (during install) and the I reboot.
Up & running. Log in as root, add a user for myself, get sound to work
(sndconfig), recompile the kernal. and that's it. Takes about 2 hours
totally and I reboot twice. Network card is detected as is my
graphicscard.
>
> Tom Jacobs
> P.S. Is there an ls command that will allow the
> directory contents to stop at the end of each page so
> I can read them?
ls -la --color | more.
ls= list files
-la list in long mode(user, group and a lot of other info)
--color gives nice colours to the output depending on filetype.
| <-- Pipe sign
more prints one page at a time.
I ususally add something like this to my .bashrc:
alias d='ls -la --color |more".
this lets me just type a 'd' to do the same as ls -la --color | more.
/Jocke!
