Article: Linux is NOT windows

[Alexander Jacob Tsykin]

On Saturday 30 December 2006 05:19, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> On 12/21/06, Pete Ryland <pdr at pdr.cx> wrote:
> > Interesting article:
> >
> > http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm
> >
> > Extract: "Linux is Not Windows
> >
> > If you've been pointed at this page, then the chances are you're a
> > relatively new Linux user who's having some problems making the switch
> > from Windows to Linux. This causes many problems for many people,
> > hence this article was written. Many individual issues arise from this
> > single problem, so the page is broken down into multiple problem
> > areas."
> >
> > I grinned when reading the comments regarding vi in Section 5a. ;-)
> >
> > Pete
> >
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> The route of Linux's success is not in the shadows of Microsoft but is
> entirely different path with the same direction. Linux is entirely
> different, and people are accepting it's differences, like Mark said, "It
> just a matter of time", with lot's of good things happening in Linux and
> Desktops, It's really just a matter of time.
>
It may be entirely different, but there is nothign wrong with saying that 
windows does dome things better and Linux those who design Linux guis in 
particular can still improve their work, simply by immitating windows. Unlike 
the writer, I view this as constructive criticism, not whining.

Sasha