Hello Phil.

16 Sep 04 18:07, you wrote to me:


 PM>>  From what I've heard Linux's is a -steep-
 PM>>  learning curve.

 >> Depends how heavliy windows indioctrinated you are ... :-)
 >> Russell

 PM>  === Hate Windows. Makes me grumpy. Someone (in
 PM>  one of the Windows echos) just mentioned how
 PM>  irritating it is. My view exactly: Irritating
 PM>  piece of work.

Hmmm ... understood ...

 PM>  === I also agree with what Maurice said about it
 PM>  basically being eye-candy - although that
 PM>  wouldn't be so bad if it was properly organized
 PM>  eye-candy. I think MS failed in its goal of
 PM>  making computers easy to use. (Lucky bugger,
 PM>  Maurice, he made the transition to Linux at the
 PM>  right time - =skipping= Windows!)

I was not that fortunate ... :-(

 PM>  === I'm a DOS person at heart. Trouble is, that
 PM>  doesn't get you very far, particularly on the
 PM>  internet. So you have Windows forced on you.
 PM>  Irritating.

:-(((((

 PM>  === On the other hand, I may soon be hating Linux.

;-/


Russell

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