Re: Two Debian 3.0 reviews at Slashdot
On Mon, 21 Oct 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote:
> Without a doubt. Why not educate your friends about how their PCs work?
> A fundamental problem today is that people don't understand the "how" and
> "why". To attempt to protect the user from how a PC operates is IMHO to
> do much more harm than good.
I agree entirely. And I also think that most of the added benefit of linux
over windows is not available if you just run some office suite under X
instead of under windows. I use linux exclusively because the time it
took me to learn the real tools -- grep, wc, emacs, perl, latex, bash,
etc. -- has paid off in spades when it comes to day-to-day efficiency. But
that logic is obscured when you just use, say, koffice under X instead of
msoffice under windows.
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