Re: I can't believe this

["Steve Lamb" <morpheus@rpglink.com>]

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On Mon, 8 Mar 1999 11:15:02 EST, MallarJ@aol.com wrote:

>Again, this article was written for the person who is new to Linux, and I
>agree - for the newbie - be afraid.  It can be done, but it takes HOURS of
>work and HOURS of reading.  Most new users of an operating system aren't going
>to want to mess with it.

    But this falls into the thinking that Windows doesn't need that.  You're
wrong, it does.  Find some hermit in the wilds of Zimbabwae (or whatever),
plop him down in front of a box and have him *INSTALL* Windows or Linux.
Guess what, both will take HOURS of work and HOURS of reading to get
anything done.

>Having said that, there really isn't anything productive I can do with my
>Linux box - yet.  I do have WP on it, but hardly use it.  I can browse the
>net - which is nice, but I can do that in Win95 too.  I still use my Win box
>for Quicken and AOL - two apps I use constantly - and neither of which will
>run on Linux.

    It all depends on what you define as "productive" with your box.  Most
people look at the "mainstream" apps.  Ooo, can I word process.  Ooo, can I
do this.  Answer on most cases, yes.  Maybe not with the specific
applications that they're used to.  I use Win95 for Quicken and PMMail and a
few other applications, but I will say, without a doubt, that I get more
work done with my Linux box than any other machine on my network.  It is my
router, my email server, my email list server, my telnet box, my web server,
my ftp server, it has samba so it is the local file server.  Without that
one box a *LOT* of what I do would not be possible.  To me, that is
productive.

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