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Fighting FUD with Humor

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the laughter-the-best-medicine dept.

Technophiliac writes to tell us MadPenguin in running a review of "Fighting FUD With Humor" Marcel Gagné's 2nd edition of "Moving to Linux". From the article: "The biggest obstacle is fear. Modern Linux distributions are easy to install and easy to use. Unfortunately, we are constantly presented with messages telling us that it's too hard and that the average person couldn't possibly grasp the complexity. That's rubbish. People aren't stupid and people who use computers learn new things all the time."

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  1. Re:You're more in danger of coming across as a whi by wbtittle · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The pHD vote for democrats because they have lost touch with reality. Having compassion for their fellow man is a crock. If they truly had compassion they would do less for the common man.

    If you never let a child do anything, will he ever do anything?

    Compassion is great, but you have to do it so that the person receiving it doesn't actually know it is happening.

    --
    God: "I don't leave footprints!"
  2. Re:Let's be HONEST here by i_should_be_working · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Uh... correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't autoplay *only* supported on CD-ROMs anyway?
    No, dumm ass, obviously not, since I'm complaining about it. Autoplay was starting when I connected a usb drive. It then proceeded to freeze the whole system. And no, holding down shift didn't work. Learn to read posts. And you have to download the Microsoft program that I did to disable it. That's why I downloaded it.

    So despite your bad comprehension of my post, I can use Windows just fine, this was just an example of a non-intuitive hassle that I came across in Windows which is actually easier to deal with in Linux.

    To reiterate the points:
    1. Windows is not always easier.
    2. Familiarity makes things easier.

    And yeesh, how did I, the one saying Linux is easy to use, become the computer illiterate one in your mangled post? Yeesh