> You have my sincere condolences. I'm struggling to restrain myself from
> launching into a vitriolic rant about how I've devoted my life to
> computing since 1965 and I can't keep up with all this complexity
I can sympathize. I live, eat, sleep, & breathe Linux and
networking (and have done so for 3 years now); and I'm still pretty
mysitfied by a lot of this stuff. there's just too much to know, and not
enough time to know it. (and not enough space in my brain to remember what I
have learned).
I feel sorry for the people who just try to use it at home
occasionally in the evenings. it's getting to the point where it's about as
easy to use as Windows on the whole; but there's so much more you *can*
learn, that it seems harder. it's not that you *have* to join a mailing list
for each tool that you use frequently; but the tools are so powerful that it
feels like there's a bottomless pit of things you can learn about them, and
it's intimidating.
> When they told you it was easy they lied.
true. but keep in mind that the same is true of any OS, and nearly
any application of complexity. it's just that they all have different ways
of being difficult. (the inflexibility of MacOS, the heavy-handed stupidity
of Windoze, and the learning curve of *nix).
I say 'OS' here; but you can substitute 'XFree86' for Linux and it still
holds true. the two programs are similar in size and complexity in a lot of
ways.
Carl Soderstrom
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Network Engineer
Real-Time Enterprises
(952) 943-8700
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