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Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!simtel!news.sprintlink.net!howland.reston.ans.net!xlink.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!news.uni-ulm.de!news.belwue.de!news.belwue.de!News.Uni-Marburg.DE!news.th-darmstadt.de!hrz-ws11.hrz.uni-kassel.de!phase23!citylink.dinoex.sub.org!peter From: peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org (Peter Much) Subject: Re: Slight flame from Linux user Organization: Buero fuer Sektenforschung und Qualitaetspruefung in der Esoterik Message-ID: <D9nMx6.FB1@citylink.dinoex.sub.org> References: <3ql3gd$je2@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3qo2af$nqo@bell.maths.tcd.ie> <3qq5i8$2jj@anshar.shadow.net> <3qqotb$sla@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie> Date: Sun, 4 Jun 1995 15:27:06 GMT Lines: 32 In article <3qqotb$sla@hamilton.maths.tcd.ie>, Timothy Murphy <tim@maths.tcd.ie> wrote: >The Linux Installation Guide makes starting and running Linux a pleasure. >I didn't find it any more difficult than installing Windows. As far as I am concerned, bringing Windows between my computer and me gives me the same sad feeling as driving a car via an incomplete and misconcepted remote control - only hiding the view to the important signs and conceptions. Sometimes, people ask me to help them, because they are stuck with some- thing on their Linux. Often, these people then have had their Linux in- stalled, and afterwards have begun to install any interesting software they got hands on, and continued doing so until nothing would work any- more, because there's no structure at all in it. If some software works, it works "by chance", and noone knows *why* it works. And noone can repair it, if it doesn't work anymore - even if one knows the concepts of the software-authors, since functionality depends on side-effects then. Those people often learn programming in C, and often make good efforts in this, but they cannot follow the logical structures of a Unix-like OS, because they never got in contact with these logical structures, due to them being hidden behind menus and boxes and the like. In the end, those systems will start looking like DOS-systems, since that was the only OS(?) structure(?) people got in close contact with... Peter -- Write to: Peter Much * Koelnische Str. 22 * D-34117 Kassel * +49-561-774961 peter@citylink.dinoex.sub.org much@hrz.uni-kassel.de p.much@asco.nev.sub.de