Ok, I understand that, and I don't want to compare Linux with Windows. Let's forget Windows. Let's say that I am a poet, and I need the computer only for writing my poems, formatting some documents, playing some games, browsing the internet, reading and composing mail, listening some music, connecting my computer to my wife's computer to exchange documents, scanning some documents and recognizing the text, creating my web page, and other simple tasks. If I am a poet and I don't know too many things about computers, and probably I will never know, let's say that I don't know Windows, what would you recommend? Learning and using Linux or using Windows? I am a poet and I don't know what is a device, a socket, etc. Thanks for advice. Now seriously, what I am trying to see is if Linux is used by non specialists in computers as much as Windows. I've seen some messages telling that Linux is for all the people, but I also see that I need to learn a lot of things before being able to use Linux, and that means that I will become a specialist, if I want to be able to use it. Is it necessary to be a Linux specialist, or I can be a simple Linux operator, that needs to do just the things I've told you above? Thank you for some light in this direction also. Teddy, orasnita at home.ro ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janina Sajka" <janina@xxxxxxx> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 8:10 AM Subject: Re: interesting experiment. On Mon, 20 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote: > Well, I want to be able to use Linux just like I use Windows, without being > a specialist, without reading a lot of manuals, without learning weeks or > months how to make some settings that I will need to use only once in 3 > years, etc. Linux isn't Windows. The words are as different as Rumanian and English are different. The concepts are also quite different. As long as you insist on Linux being like Windows, you aren't going to get anywhere. You need to throw out everything you think you know about computers and start over. Or, forget Linux. We won't be offended. _______________________________________________ Speakup mailing list Speakup at braille.uwo.ca http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
