[CLUE-Tech] Re: I tried the 'chattr +i'

[Jed S. Baer]

On Wed, 22 May 2002 17:27:31 -0600
Mike Staver <staver at fimble.com> wrote:

> I'll agree with you there Joe that linux has a long way to go in the
> user-friendliness area.  I'm beginning to like it more and more though
> simply because the more I use it, the more I figure out and remember for
> next time.  Granted, moving from one distro to the next just confuses me
> greatly.  So, I try to stick to just one distro, and so far, that one
> has been Red Hat.  However, I STILL can't seem to get my monitor to not
> go black after 15 minutes :(   

Hey, my Linux box is very user-friendly -- once I beat it into submission
;-).

The biggest reason, I think, for the "user friendly" issue is that linux
hides so much less from you than Windoze does. And, since there are more
choices, there is more complexity. I mean, hey, Windoze doesn't even have
file permissions (at least not the single-user versions). I once had to
wrangle with permissions on files on a share on an NT server. Man, that
GUI thing for doing that was a mess. Also, there are some software
packages that are very user friendly. Others really suck.

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