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Re: [News] Ten Things That Linux Beginners 'Unlearn'

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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