From: "Paul Ranson" 

You have to learn to vary your ways of operating your tool. This always
takes a while.

I prefer the look of XP, but I may have turned it 'down' slightly. I do
like the empty desktop and the new style 'start' menu.

Paul

"Robert Comer"  wrote in message
news:3dceb61b$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > If the tool now allows you do the same things in a better way, would
> > accommodating that be acceptable? There's only one way to find out.
>
> You wouldn't have to accommodate it if it did the same things better...
> It's arguable whether XP does much better than W2K -- it sure seems like
> they made it harder to admin, recover from disaster, and they made it UGLY
> by default.)
>
> > FWIW I've been finding modern Unix extremely frustrating. I'm almost
> happier
> > at the raw console where I can operate reflexively. Accommodating XP is
> very
> > low impact itself by comparison with any of the X desktops.
>
> I agree 100%, I've never been wild about any UNIX variant -- it seems
> obscurity is valued highly in UNIX circles, but there's one thing at least
> Linux has over XP -- it's WAY lower cost up front makes it a lot easier to
> want to accommodate it than XP.
>
> - Bob Comer
>
>
> "Paul Ranson"  wrote in message
> news:3dce8c40$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > If the tool now allows you do the same things in a better way, would
> > accommodating that be acceptable? There's only one way to find out.
> >
> > FWIW I've been finding modern Unix extremely frustrating. I'm almost
> happier
> > at the raw console where I can operate reflexively. Accommodating XP is
> very
> > low impact itself by comparison with any of the X desktops.
> >
> >  Paul
> >
> > "Mike '/m'"  wrote in message
> > news:sgvssu8hn475778ecau1mjv4bb44ea6d4e{at}4ax.com...
> > > On Sun, 10 Nov 2002 00:07:44 -0000, "Paul Ranson"

> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > >I think it's quite possible to reach an accommodation with XP...
> > >
> > > I remain to be convinced that I have to accomodate my computer.  The
> > > computer is my tool, not vice versa.
> > >
> > >  /m
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

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