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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:Let's be HONEST here by CyricZ · · Score: 0, Troll

    Did you actually try to install it, let alone use it? Just downloading the ISO images doesn't count as using it, you know.

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  2. Re:Let's be HONEST here by Z34107 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I spent 15 minutes yesterday trying to disable autoplay (for all drives, not just the cdrom) in Windows. In the end I had search on the internet to find the solution, download a program and do some very non-intuitive stuff.

    Uh... correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't autoplay *only* supported on CD-ROMs anyway? And why the heck would you download a program to disable it? Or, if it bothers you that much and you can't figure out one of the simplest GUIs ever devised, you can hold down SHIFT to bypass autoplay.

    Jesus kills a puppy every day someone can't figure out how to use Windows...

    When I have to use Windows it's unfamiliar and illogical

    And... how have you lived and not used Windows? Whether you like it or not, it's everywhere, and somehow you're complaining that you've managed to remain ignorant for so long...

    Sure, it's slashdot, but yeesh, if you don't like Windows, don't use it. If you have to use Windows, learn how. Yeesh, my dad doesn't have problems with it. (He can even use a DOS prompt!) My grandparents know how to use Windows, and my grandmother writes and publishes novels from her desktop. Yeesh, some octogenarians deserve a nerd badge more than you...

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  3. Fighting FUD with Humor? by FhnuZoag · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ah, hell, I have karma to burn.

    Modern Linux distributions are easy to install and easy to use.
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

    it's too hard and that the average person couldn't possibly grasp the complexity. That's rubbish.
    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

    People aren't stupid
    HHAHAHAHAHha... *choke*

  4. Re:It's not that it's hard by mboverload · · Score: 1, Troll

    Linux IS something only geeks use.