> In some respects the point-and-click-Linux bigots are just as
> annoying as the Windows bigots.

Heh.  In some respects, they're a lot more annoying; that sort of person
will start flamewars because they think everyone should use their
distribution, their desktop environment (KDE vs. Gnome, the rematch!), and
gawd knows what else.  One particular individual I've talked to insists on
providing everyone with running updates on why he thinks his current
point-and-click Linux distro is better than everything else ever, including
what he was running last week.  Posts upon posts of "wow, Mandrake 7 is so
much better than Red Hat!", "wow, Mandrake 7.1 is so much better than
Mandrake 7!" and "wow, you really know Linux, do you use Gnome or KDE?" get
pretty annoying...  As well as twelve-step instructions on changing a file's
owner using whatever clicky environment that user is using, where chown does
the job in one.  Bah.

At least most Windows users realise that some parts of the system aren't
going to be as easy to use than others, and accept this (they won't complain
that the stuff hiding away in the depths of Control Panel, for instance,
isn't very easy to understand).  Point-and-click-Linux bigots scream blue
murder when someone suggests that what they want to do involves editing a
config file by hand or using a terminal window for anything more complex
than spawning another X app.

Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)

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