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Re: If you could design a $300 homecomputer today, what would you choose?



In article <t0n8mt46ifup9ilnuv1bnca1ov4nsm4hf4@4ax.com>, usenet-20010705
@barnyard.co.uk says...
> On Sun, 29 Jul 2001 16:09:23 +0000 (UTC), Stephen Shaw
> <xstephenx@apple2.org.za> said:
> 
> >Anyone who can use a command line as per the Apple II shouldn't find adapting
> >to Linux very difficult. It is only GUI users (like Windoze) who find things
> >"unfriendly".
> 
> "Unix isn't unfriendly, it's just very particular about who its
> friends are."

LOL I love that line ;)

There are things in linux that it really is harder to do than in 
Windows, but these things (like routing, wierd protocols like PPPoE)
are things usually done by someone who should probably spend a little 
time learning anyway.

Sure linux has a learning curve, but it's a freaking computer, when did 
the notion that computers had to be usable by people who didn't want to 
learn anything become popular?