[PLUG] /usr/bin vs. c:\Program Files and a hammer (was Ubuntu Dapper ...)

[Michael M.]

Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Michael Rasmussen wrote:
> 
>> A hammer enables easy misuse.  An OS typically doesn't.  Linux does so 
>> less
>> than Windows. This is a bad thing?
> 
> 
> Mike,
> 
>   How many people walk around with a bruised thumb from running linux?

Well, I nearly gave myself carpal tunnel syndrome manually changing 
permissions of a few hundred files one-by-one in mc -- try repeating 
"C-x c <arrow-down> <arrow-down> <arrow-down> <arrow-down> <arrow-down> 
<spacebar> s" over and over, and your hand will be pretty sore too.

That was before I read 'man chown,' which nearly made me give up on 
Linux altogether.  Linux man pages either are the greatest thing since 
sliced bread or make you want to put your head through the monitor.  But 
then I found a useful tutorial somewhere that was written in English 
with examples, and all was well again.  I still think 'man chown' is a 
good example of a man page that could not be less newbie friendly if it 
tried.  It seems deliberately calculated to shut out the uninitiated.

-- 
Michael M. -- Portland, OR -- USA
"No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions 
of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to 
dream." -S. Jackson