On 01/14/2007 J Sloan wrote: > I agree about the icons looking funny, but I find it really different. For > instance drive letters, LOL, what's that about? And one single desktop - bleh.
How many times a day do you even have to think about where something is on a harddrive, unless your using CLI exclusively. You click an icon, or a menu shortcut, the program opens. You do whatever and close the program. Click another icon. Not that much difference. Even click an icon to open a terminal "window". However, Linux does use a sort of drive letter. FD, HDA, HDB, etc. A, C, D, etc are shorter designations. Especially when you have to add the partition number, FD0, HDA1, HDA2, HDB1, HDB2, etc. It's all in how you keep track of them. The major differences I see are the file structure and how you install something. I have no clue where stuff is on the hard drives, [ there's bits, pieces, and copies of stuff all over the place ] but then I don't have to. The computer keeps track of all that stuff. Software installation is a whole other can of worms. There ain't a whole lot of standardization sometimes. RPM's are pretty much a no brainer, most of the time. Tar balls on the other hand. Well, lets just say ya better find that "readme" in there somewhere. BUT, as I said, in my normal everyday use I really can't see that much difference. Exceot for the icon of course. BUT, some of them even make more sense in Linux than they do in Windows. I do like the multiple desktops. If I get one to jammed up I can open the other and start over on a clean page. Kind of like the tabbed browsing in Konqueror and Firfox. It's a LOT easier, and more efficient, than having multiple iterations of the same program. It took Microsoft a long time to figure it out in IE. -- (o:]>*HUGGLES*<[:o) Billie Walsh The three best words in the English Language: "I LOVE YOU" Pass them on! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
