[ILUG] Small office project

[Justin Mason]

Chris Higgins said:

> Windows has one way of doing things, it's the microsoft way, it's what
> you'll find in the books... and every windows person you ask will give
> you that same solution - because it's the only one they know.
> 
> When you come to a non-windows environment, the range of possibilities is
> endless and the range of options is almost the same - and that brings 
> with it some additional work on the behalf of the user that doesn't
> exist in the windows world.

BTW -- just to go off on a philosophical tangent:

I reckon that a lot of the "linux sucks, windows is more intuitive"
comments that we see, are off-base.  Next time you use Windows and
try to do something with it, think about each step and consider
how "intuitive" it would be to a beginner.

In my most recent experiment (viewing some streaming video for the
Ireland-Iran match ;), I came across several moments where a newbie
would be ringing up their techie mate to come 'round and "fix the
computer". [*]

In other words, Windows is *not* as intuitive as people make out; it's
just familiarity.

You can go further back -- right back to the moving the mouse on the
mousemat, that bendy arrow button being the "Return Key", etc.  but
I reckon most want-to-try-linux folks have got that far anyway. ;)

But anyway -- the bottom line is, linux has different ways to do things
from windows.  there will always be a learning curve when you're making
the switch.

([*]: in the end I just gave up anyway, it was just too much work
for 3am after the pub ;)

--j.