DTC <no_spam@move_along_folks.foob> hath wroth:

>Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>> If you've never seen Windoze before, do you think the typical user can
>> deal with Windoze? Both Linux and Windoze have a learning curve.

>I would venture to say there are more converts from Windows to Linux than
>the other way around.

Quantity is a rather poor replacement for quality. However, that has
nothing to do with my comment on your assertion. I've helped a few
commerical customers make the transition from Windoze to various Linux
mutations (mostly SUSE). The problem is always the learning curve.
Most consider their knowledge of Windoze to be an investment of sorts
and refuse to start from scratch learning Linux. After giving it a
half hearted try, all but a few of my customers have given up on Linux
as being too hard to learn. IMHO, Apple OS/X did it right. It
insulated the user from any need to ever see the shell prompt or run
anything from the command line. Perhaps future Linux mutations will
learn this lesson (but probably not).



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