Ibrahim Shaame wrote: A lot of good words here.
> I think there is a mistunderstading here. Linux is not > SuSe, Connectiva, RedHat or any other distro. So if > you have a problem with one of them, don't blame all > Linux, rather blame your distribution. Linux is just the kernel, and all these distributions try to cobble together a complete system from a huge pile of random pieces, with (apparently) varying degrees of success. There's a trade-off between end-user configurability and simplicity. If you want ease-of-use, you'll have to settle for the defaults that Suse or Redhat or whoever tested the most. > Secondly Linux > is for people who think on the longterm; it's true > that it takes a hell of time to learn, but once you > have learnt it becomes as easy as your Window$ and > it's free forever. I think most people forget that > they have passed so much time to learn Window$ to get > to their current knowledge. And, unfortunately, they > would just like to capitalize their Window$ knowledge > into Linux. It does not work that way; you will have > to suffer and learn! Just remember how painful it was > when you moved from your old DOS to Window$ 3. It was > not an easy migration and some companies took years to > do so. If you've only used one system (or one family of systems) in your life you probably have the mistaken idea that what you know and are familiar with is normal, or even correct. Learning just one more completely different system is difficult and takes time (they're all very complex these days) but it will expand your horizons immensely, and it will make learning a third and a fourth much easier. You certainly can't expect to be able to use the latest bleeding-edge "features" within a few days of first seeing this completely unfamiliar system. Invest some time in trying to understand how the new system is different from the familiar one, and how it's similar, and the advantages and disadvantages of the differences. X11 is very, very different from Microsoft Windows. The visible stuff, keyboard, mouse, rectangular "windows" on the display, may look pretty similar, but the architecture underneath is completely different. Oh and if you want to watch movies easily, simply, and reliably, get a TV and a VCR. You won't be able to calculate ballistic missile trajectories, though. If you need to do computation, get a computer. ;-) -- Remember, more computing power was thrown away last week than existed in the world in 1982. -- http://www.tom.womack.net/computing/prices.html _______________________________________________ Newbie mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** To unsubscribe , or change message options, see: http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/newbie
