howard schwartz wrote: > As a user (Unix has that quaint phrase ``user time'' versus cpu time etc.) Bingo. I seem to spend a lot more time waiting for the operating system to do what I want, and tweaking it in attempts to get it to do that, than I ever did running dos.
Linux is superb for networks and multi-users. but for a single user at his own machine, linux adds overhead that makes all of the routine tasks on that same hardware slower. The 'drag and drop' is intuitively simple, but I am not so stupid that I cannot figure out how to run a scrollbar tool like DC.com. With DC, I can type the first letter of the file name and it hops down to those files which start with that letter. a couple down/arrow keys later, the file is hilighted, and F1 copies it to the destination. This saves a couple seconds or more with every step of the file management process, and multiplied by the amount of time spend dragging the mouse around add up to a lot of inconvenience. And while Linux may do a long file download or whatever in the background, when faced with that, an OCR scan, or whatever, the home user can do what the office user cannot: that is, go away from the computer. the home user has no need to look like he is busy and productive at the computer. It is one of the reasons the SURVPC is still so damn useful. If it takes 20 minutes rather than 5 to do some task, that is no big deal. The home user has lots of other things that need doing in the home during that time. Maximizing the productivity of the computer dont always maximize the productivity of a life. To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
