http://www.pcmech.com/article/linux-guide-1-making-the-switch/ Helping Normal People Get Their Geek On Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:17:25 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.pcmech.com/article/linux-guide-1-making-the-switch/comment-page-1/#comment-2662 Alan Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:32:09 +0000 1529107637#comment-2662 Oh, so you think you're happy with Linux, eh? How about the half-day you spent getting the video to work and the new card that you had to buy? How about the assumption that you are an expert and the consequently shorthand instructions that are useless to anyone but an IT graduate? How about the instructions that are just plain wrong ("All you have to do is download it and burn a disc...") How about having to go to four different forums to find an answer because the first two of them tell you that it's easy and you should be able to figure this out after you klemtate the horgel and doesn't tell you that it won't unless you fleeg first, and the third one starts talking about some other issue like how evil Microsoft is for providing the world with OSes that work. How about unspecified dependencies? How about the whole attitude that people really want to spend their time solving puzzles instead of getting to accomplish the work that they got their computers to do? Oh, so you think you’re happy with Linux, eh? How about the half-day you spent getting the video to work and the new card that you had to buy? How about the assumption that you are an expert and the consequently shorthand instructions that are useless to anyone but an IT graduate? How about the instructions that are just plain wrong (”All you have to do is download it and burn a disc…”) How about having to go to four different forums to find an answer because the first two of them tell you that it’s easy and you should be able to figure this out after you klemtate the horgel and doesn’t tell you that it won’t unless you fleeg first, and the third one starts talking about some other issue like how evil Microsoft is for providing the world with OSes that work. How about unspecified dependencies? How about the whole attitude that people really want to spend their time solving puzzles instead of getting to accomplish the work that they got their computers to do?

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