On 09/27/2015 01:07 PM, Xen wrote:
On Sun, 27 Sep 2015, Anton Aylward wrote:
On 09/27/2015 12:11 PM, Xen wrote:
In Windows you have to buy tools really. In Linux you often have to develop them yourself. The latter takes a lot of time,
For a novice, neophyte maybe, but after a few years, throwing together a shell script of a couple of lines of perl is something you do almost unconsciously. You don't notice the time. You probably spend more time walking down the hallway to get a coffee.
That's mostly because you've already spent years becoming familiar with the available tools so you've already chosen a subset of what you like to work with.
Yes. Experience counts. It clear from your counter points that you don't have that experience. Why not be tactful and elarn?
This becoming familiar with tools and finding you way is the part that requires the most effort or energy or time.
Yes, that's why people go to school, study, have apprenticeships and training schemes. Look at this way: you're going to grow old anyway so why not spend the time learning? Oh, right, you want instant gratification.
There are no shortcuts,
It used to be called "The Royal Road"
unless
No "unless". Study, practice. They say t takes 10,000 hours to master a skill. Better shut up and start. Pike and others wrote a number of "white books" on the way UNIX works. Buy then and work though every example. Don't download the packages, type them in by hand.
Linux is usually something that requires a lot of time to set up and get right for yourself.
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