[SATLUG] Pokes at Microsoft (off Topic)

[John Hammer]

on 03/02/2007 03:56 PM Robert J Hewitt said the following:
> You know it seems to me that everyone including myself seems to take shots
> at Microsoft a lot.  But in true defense to the novice computer user like my
> neighbor daughter, the nice family just up the street and even my wife, all
> who don't want to learn Linux. (God forbid) but there are a lot of people
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Robert--

Just what do you mean when you say you "don't want to learn Linux"? I've 
had several people tell me that and I've never understood what they mean.

With Microsoft Windows there is basically learning the applications one 
uses in the course of being at the computer, Outlook, Word, some games, 
perhaps a few others. Rarely do you have to know how Windows works. In 
fact, you are strongly discouraged from knowing how the 
behind-the-scenes activities are done.

With Linux, you can learn how it works if you want to but you don't have 
to any more than with Windows. You can use the same types of programs, 
plus you have a lot more choices among those programs. You can decide 
the level of involvement you are comfortable with.

The basic difference as I see it is that Microsoft makes the choices for 
you and Linux will give you defaults that you can override if you so choose.

John Hammer