On Monday 28 February 2005 13:02, AndyYankovich wrote: <snip>
Well guys, Linux is a wonderful piece of work **if you are a software engineer**.
But for one who is not an engineer of any kind, one who used Windows only when Win95 came out because it was easier than DOS, etc., and one who like many, many *new computer users* had no one sitting next to them (like at work) to teach the little things of how to do anything, I feel Linux won't get to be mainstream until Linux becomes standardized and much more user friendly with live tech support.
Funny...I'm no "engineer" of *any* kind. Nor am I a programmer of any kind. Hell, I can't even figure out how to write a simple bash script. I got my first computer with W95 on it, just as you did. I had it in my home, since I was a construction carpenter there was no need for me to have a computer at work. No one sat next to me and taught me *anything*. I had to learn how to work the darn thing on my own. 5 years of putting up with Winduhs' shit, I literally switched to Linux. Guess what...I had to learn that on my own too. What I'm seeing in your post above, is just laziness on *your* part to put your brain to a little use and figure things out a little bit, and ask questions. Kinda the proof I need when I tell my friends the generations of people 10 years younger than me and downward are just getting lazy and plain stupid. <snip rest unread> John B