Erik Funkenbusch <erik@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> did eloquently scribble:
> On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 07:53:21 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>> 10 Things a new Linux user needs to unlearn
> Man, whoever wrote this needs to take a course in logic, or communication.
>> ,----[ Gist ]
>>| 1) Reboots are not SOP (Standard Operating Procedure).
> You need to unlearn that reboots are not SOP? Wouldn't that mean learning
> that they are?
Use your brain, it should be "10 things windows users need to unlearn when
switching to linux. So he got the heading wrong, big deal.
>>| 2) "It is recommended that you close all apps before proceeding" is a
>>| message you will fail to see.
> Apart from the fact that this isn't generally required under Windows since
> Windows 9x, again the logic is inverted here.
> [... more inverted logic ...]
>>| 4) Linux comes with many, many, many, many applications to do pretty
>>| much anything you want to do with a computer.
> Yeah, like do your taxes, or perhaps create greeting cards. More inverted
> logic.
Greeting cards? Taxes? Yeah riiiight. I'm sure gnumeric and gnucash can do
taxes. CARDS? come off it, you don't need a specialised app for that.
>>| 5) Stop looking for EULA boxes.
> Who ever looked for them?
Which is part of the windows problem, people never do.
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