At 01:16 PM 11/28/1999 +0100, you wrote:
>Hammer wrote:
> >It took me perhaps three years to "learn" DOS, arcane as it was indeed.
>
>Really? It took me a few days to get the basics (and
And for me it was but a week with only an index of commands. I was able to
view the directory structure with either the tree command or dosshell and
grasp the heirarchy and structure quickly.
With Linux the directory structure doesn't seem to be stable! Things seem
to be under several branches or something all at once. One time a folder
will be under one place, another it will be under another place. Also, as
/ (root) seems to shift from one place to another, I never know where I am
in relation to the tree.
Then there are a million possible ways to do one thing, making it hard to
remember how I did it the first time. Many of my Linux breakthroughs have
been the "bash on keyboard screaming till something different happens" type
and heaven only knows which key or combination of keys did the trick.
Then, of course, whether or not any given application recommended to me is
installed is purely chance!
Document what I've done?? What, you mean pick up a pencil and force
cramping fingers to form letters on paper more than one sentence
long??? What, are you nuts? hehehe. Guess I could get out the laptop and
type it all in but what a nuisance. I suppose I'm the programmer type if
I'd ever had been given the training... I hate documenting and taking
notes, really, almost as much as I hate re-reading them. I'm canadian, I
want everything and I want it yesterday! :-)
But seriously, once I get that stupid MCP exam over with I'll dive back
into linux again. i've a friend who's gotten caldera installed and is
actually deciphering it so i can get direct demonstration. That's what I
really need to learn, I have to see it done, not merely be told in print.
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