One of the "bad habits" is having to double-click
when a single click will do. For those of us
who use both OS's it's quite distracting, and I
think the Linux way makes more sense.
Another bad habit of MS is always having to say
"yes you may" whenever you want to print something.
I hope Linux _never_ does that! I don't know how many
times I've walked over to the network printer and
found nothing because I forgot to say, "yes you may."
(There are certain procedures in which I would not mind having
to say "yes you may," like formatting a drive with data on it,
or rm'ing the kernel.)
Linux also puts things in unobvious places--RPM does it all
the time--so MS is not alone here. And you can usually find
the files in either system, with a little dilligence.
The _big_ advantage with Linux, is that you can fix something--
or at least you can ask the list, and someone will tell you
how to fix something--instead of blindly reinstalling and
hoping the problem goes away. I'm not happy that config
files live all over the place, but at least they are there
_somewhere_ and you can read and write to them. See how
much luck you have dealing with MS's registry! (I wonder
why Unix (and Linux) don't have a /config directory, with
all of and nothing but the configuration files in it?)
At 11:08 AM 12/05/2000 -0900, you wrote:
>prob'ly things like d/ling plugins that automagically are installed and
>the user doesn't even know where they are...
>
>generally anything which performs Bill's stated goal of making the
>workings of the computer or any part thereof completely invisible to the
>user...
>just my guess...please correct me if I am wrong
>
>Mark Johnson wrote:
>
> > what would be an example of a bad habit?
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Mark Weaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, December 04, 2000 9:36 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: [newbie] gates gets Linux
> >
> > Well said Jozef! Well said!
> >
> > Actually, I don't hate Windows, I just HATE the bad habits that have
> > become part and parcel of the entire windows experience.
