[wplug] Linux newbie

Christopher DeMarco cdemarco at fastmail.fm
Fri Oct 22 09:27:16 EDT 2004


On Fri, Oct 22, 2004 at 09:02:18AM -0400, Embery, Nathan wrote:

> FWIW, I totally agree... for a sys admin or power user.

> Given the strides  that mandrake, fedora,  suse et  al have made  in
> making Linux accessable to 'normal' people, is it *really* necessary
> to for us, as established users, to tell people that they have to be
> able to edit obscure text files, even if all they want to do is just
> surf the web?

Oh, I completely agree with that.  In fact, I'll be staking part of my
income  on that precept  in  about a year or   so.  I interpreted  the
question as an enquiry from a newbie who wanted to make the transition
to being a pointy-hat.

To  the original poster: what  *do* you want  - the  left-hand path to
enlightenment,  or a  sleek,   powerful shark  that  will  devour  all
proprietary systems with its (almost) transparent usability?


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