On Saturday 25 December 2004 4:39 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > As far as installing applications, with programs like synaptic (GUI > point-and-click) and aptitude (console-based, but still very easy to > use) it is simply a matter of choosing your new application, and > telling it to go. I would like to add that aptitude accepts mouse input if you're running it in a x-terminal (konsole, xterm, etc). > In Windows-land many things are forced on the user with no easy > avenue for change. In Linux-land everything is your choice. If you > are having trouble choosing, then Google or post here on the list and > I'm sure that you will receive plenty of replies from people on all > sides of any particular choice. Such as, which text editor is best > (vim, of course) or which window manager is the slickest (naturally > it is WindowMaker), and so on. That's the biggest difference between using Windows and using Linux: You get free support from Linux just about anywhere if you know the right question (as opposed to Windows, where you pay $30 to sit on hold and get the wrong answer, no matter what the question). -- Paul Johnson baloo@ursine.dyndns.org http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/
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