> Linux has provided me with the answer of what can be done on those long
cold
> wintery nights when all thats keeping me going is a full perculator of
coffee
> and a sheer willfull desire to have this machine finally configured to my
> liking. So what if I'm red eyed and blurry the next day at work at least
So for you two, you see Linux as a "puzzle" and "challenge" to solve or
something to keep you occuppied when you are bored on those cold wintery
nights and have nothing to do. I can see the fun in that.
But, - there are many of us who look to Linux as a powerful OS to "use"
rather than as a game to solve or a "learning tool". For those, a
friendlier
interface (as is being developed) would allow us to use the OS while still
leaving the code below available for those who wish to tinker with it or who
installed it as a complicated puzzle to solve.
Different perspectives I guess.
Jeff Malka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Registered Linux user 183185
----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Scotchmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 7:21 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] AGH!! Linux not ready for prime time (OS/2 user)
> On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > I like Linux as it is. I don't give a shit about prime
> > time. Linux is a learning experience, more like PBS. If it
> > turns into Saturday morning cartoons, I'll go with something
> > else. Call me a snob I don't care.
> >
> > BTW I am not a programmer.
> >
> > Phil
> >
> Thats exactly my thoughts Phil.
>
> If Linux became 'Prime-time' and everything was made to run perfectly
first
> time round then where would the learning experience be. This is one of
the
> major paradoxes that the Linux distributors, promoters and programmers
must
> face.
>
> For me Linux has recaptured the days of my youth when, with my ZX81 and
later
> Spectrum, I would hide away for hours whilst typing in pages and pages of
> program from a games magazine or trying to teach myself basic. Then came
> Windows and I became a virtual zombie.
>
> Now thanks to Linux, whilst others down tthe local pub are discussing the
> finer arts of word processing and how to change their Windows 9x desktop
> colours, I'm wrangling with the complexeties of LiLo configuration, shell
> scripting and trying to teach myself C programing. I'm once again
reliving
> those distant and hazy days of youth when my world revolved around a
spongey
> rubber keypad and a 16k RAM pack precariously balanced against a school
> textbook.
>
> Linux has provided me with the answer of what can be done on those long
cold
> wintery nights when all thats keeping me going is a full perculator of
coffee
> and a sheer willfull desire to have this machine finally configured to my
> liking. So what if I'm red eyed and blurry the next day at work at least
I can
> say that I know more about my system and computers in general than just
knowing
> how to point at something and click.
>
> Andrew
>
>
>
>
>
