interesting experiment.

[Octavian Rasnita]

Ok, I understand that, and I don't want to compare Linux with Windows.
Let's forget Windows.
Let's say that I am a poet, and I need the computer only for writing my
poems, formatting some documents, playing some games, browsing the internet,
reading and composing mail, listening some music, connecting my computer to
my wife's computer to exchange documents, scanning some documents  and
recognizing the text, creating my web page, and other simple tasks.

If I am a poet and I don't know too many things about computers, and
probably I will never know, let's say that I don't know Windows, what would
you recommend?
Learning and using Linux or using Windows?
I am a poet and I don't know what is a device, a socket, etc.

Thanks for advice.

Now seriously, what I am trying to see is if Linux is used by non
specialists in computers as much as Windows.

I've seen some messages telling that Linux is for all the people, but I also
see that I need to learn a lot of things before being able to use Linux, and
that means that I will become a specialist, if I want to be able to use it.

Is it necessary to be a Linux specialist, or I can be a simple Linux
operator, that needs to do just the things I've told you above?

Thank you for some light in this direction also.

Teddy,
orasnita at home.ro

----- Original Message -----
From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 8:10 AM
Subject: Re: interesting experiment.


On Mon, 20 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

> Well, I want to be able to use Linux just like I use Windows, without
being
> a specialist, without reading a lot of manuals, without learning weeks or
> months how to make some settings that I will need to use only once in 3
> years, etc.

Linux isn't Windows. The words are as different as Rumanian and
English are different. The concepts are also quite different.

As long as you insist on Linux being like Windows, you aren't
going to get anywhere. You need to throw out everything you think
you know about computers and start over. Or, forget Linux. We
won't be offended.


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