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Windows vs. Linux: Understanding the Difficulty Divide
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| Over the years, I’ve developed a generalized theory about the relative cost
| of getting things done in Windows versus that of Linux, and as something of a
| corollary, the reason a lot of people say Linux is too hard, or “not ready
| for the desktop.”
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| [...]
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| Of course, this graph has no actual numbers to back it up. It is just a
| visualization to help explain a concept that I’ve seen illustrated many times
| over. The X-axis represents the complexity of the task at hand. It could be
| setting up networking, viewing an image, making a movie, building and running
| a website, automating some complex database migration; really any task that
| might be done with a computer, large or small. The Y-axis then represents the
| relative cost of completing that task. I mean “cost” here very generally. The
| cost could be your own personal time, the cost of a license for a piece of
| software, the cost of training, or the cost of hiring a developer to write a
| program to do what you need.
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http://www.workswithu.com/2008/05/26/the-difficulty-divide/
Related:
When will we hear the end of computer quacks?
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| So why beat the dead skunk again? Check it out: Don Norman discovered
| command line interfaces! And he's about to take his discovery to the
| press! Yes, he thinks this is an original discovery all his own.
|
| [...]
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| I can't wait until Microsoft invents apt-get so he can fawn over it next...
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http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=when_will_we_hear_the_end_of_computer_qu&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
10 Reasons Why the Command Line is More User-Friendly than the Desktop
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| Keying is faster than mousing.
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| It's easier to both give and get help.
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| Repetitive stress injury comes from the mouse, not the keyboard.
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| Commands are standard where GUIs are not.
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| [...]
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http://penguinpetes.com/b2evo/index.php?title=10_reasons_why_the_command_line_is_more_&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1
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