Re: Starting with Linux

From: Vahis (vahis_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/13/05

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    Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:26:05 +0200

    houghi wrote:
    > PerfectReign wrote:
    >> Actually is is a very short learning curve. Unless you've been using
    >> Windows, in which case, it is more of an "unlearning" curve.
    >
    > I have witnessed people going from Win98 to NT and from NT to (I think)
    > XP. Several people needed at least one week to get used to this new
    > stuff.
    > You will see it happen again when in 2008 companies start to use
    > Microsoft Vista.

    First they need to have Vista which does not exist. Before this they
    thought they needed Longhorn. It never existed before it was buried.

    Also Microsoft thought they will make Longhorn for them. Then they found
    out that programming the way they had done it was impossible. They named
    the new approach Vista.
    Now they are saying that Vista is behind the corner. They are not
    talking about it being totally, totally different approach.

    Microsoft has such a strong name that they will survive even this. It is
    like the little Mercedes which the swedes flipped over in their tests.
    Any other manufacturer may never have survived but Mercedes did because
    of their name. They built the most expensive things in that size class
    cars ever built and managed to fix it. The little ones do not fall over
    anymore.

    Vista has nothing like the Widozes have had internally. The whole idea
    is different. It is so nix-like internally that users will have to have
    a totally new approach. Any backwards compatibility must come from
    something like we have, like Wine.

    >
    > So it is not so much the learning curve as it is to understand what you
    > are doing. It is as if giving a man a salmon every day and suddenly you
    > give him fishsticks. The second is much easier to process, yet if you do
    > not know what it is and somebody tells you it is fish, you might start
    > to get the skin of and then try to clean it further.
    >

    If Windows has been fish, Vista will be chicken. 

    -- 
Vahis
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