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

[Lancashire, Pete]

soon i will have my teletype running again, with it
you get to admire how few key strokes unix command
needed when that was your 'user interface' in getting
your job done.

-pete

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael M. [mailto:nixlists at writemoore.net]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2006 2:21 PM
> To: General Linux/UNIX discussion and help; civil and on-topic
> Subject: Re: [PLUG] /usr/bin vs. c:\Program Files and a hammer (was
> Ubuntu Dapper ...)
> 
> 
> 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
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