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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:FUD??? by ZachPruckowski · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    So is it:

    1) RTFA - Read The F***ing Article
    2) Dupe!! - This article has been done before on /.
    3)torrent - short for bittorrent

    I think we could use a /. glossary. Wikipedia has one for general internet talk: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_internet_slan g

  2. My new ways by Z34107 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Y'know, rather than just flame every Linux user (I'll get you all eventually :-D) and every Mac user (all five of you :-D) I might just start submitting some Microsoft stories.... Haha, my goal is to now get a WHOLE THREAD devoted to flames against *me*! Support my flame-me cause!

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    DATABASE WOW WOW
  3. Humor: by sakusha · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Modern Linux distributions are easy to install and easy to use.

    ha HA HA HA HA HA! Hee hee. Ha! ROTFLMAO!
    You guys are killing me.