Amazingly dumb remark about Linux (fwd)

[Octavian Rasnita]

That's exactly what I want.
I want to be able to solve the problem by trial and error, by guessing and
not by reading a manual.

Under Linux, I can't guess a command line parameter.
If it needs only one parameter, I can guess it but if it needs a lot of
parameters it will take me a very long time and I may break something.

In Windows, I can try and if it is something dangerous, it will ask me, do
you really want to  do xxx?
And I can cancel, but under Linux, ...

Teddy,
orasnita at home.ro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow at gmx.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 11:39 PM
Subject: Re: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux (fwd)


> There is no fine manuel for winblows.  Online help sux because beby the
time
> you find what you need in those long worthless helpfiles, you've already
> solved your problem.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ari Moisio" <armoi at sci.fi>
> To: "Speakup mailing list" <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 12:43 AM
> Subject: OT: Re: Amazingly dumb remark about Linux (fwd)
>
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Octavian Rasnita 03.06.02:
> >
> > >Have you heard to read the "fine" manual of Windows, or of MS Office?
> > >I never heard that.
> >
> >   Is there fine manuals for windows at all? At least online helps are
> > worthless 'cos they repeat same things with more msoft hype than
> > original problem.
> >
> >   Of course there are also a lot of printed books but they are useless
> > for blind user.
> >
> >   In contrast Linux has excellent documentation, both technically
> > oriented man pages, good howto's and FAQ's. All these are accessible
> > plain text or html.
> >
> > --
> > Mr. Ari Moisio, Niittykatu 5, 41160 Tikkakoski, +358-40-5055239
> > ari.moisio at iki.fi http://www.iki.fi/arimo PGP-keyID: 0x3FAF0F05
> >
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