From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

> Antti,
>
> Sorry if I sounded like I was looking for a fight.  I'm not.

No, I was just being careful - I've lurked here for a while 


> In fact your comments are becoming the kernel of a new
> column I am doing on "culture shock" as people migrate
> or attempt to migrate from Windows.

Cool !


> So far I am writing about the problems of too much choice
> and the apparently nonsensical naming of applications as the
> primary topics.

Alrighty.


> Any other suggestions for inclusion on a piece on "culture
> shock"?

Yes: lack of documentation / poor quality of it. That's basically
understandable, but it still bothers me greatly. One thing I really would
like to see is a "how to do things in Linux that you're used to doing
in Windows" kinda doc, I think that could be a hit.

Also, as a positive point, I was fairly impressed that when I installed
Mandrake, it automatically put itself to an empty hd (bought just for this
purpose - the other hd has W2k on it), and configured the os selector for
the boot-up. That was really smooth - it was much more painful the last
time I came across Linux (RedHat something, a few years ago).


Antti Kurenniemi

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