on Mon, Oct 21, 2002, Andrew Perrin (clists@perrin.socsci.unc.edu) wrote: > 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. My summary of this: GNU/Linux has a steep learning curve, but compensates with a high payoff function. Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <kmself@ix.netcom.com> http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you understand? TWikIWeThey: Technology, free software, GNU/Linux, and a little bit of everything else: http://twiki.iwethey.org/
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