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Ubuntu 9.04 For the Windows Power User
crazipper writes "Know a Windows power user who is (honestly) good with technology, but hasn't yet warmed to Linux? Tom's Hardware just posted a guide to installing and using Ubuntu 9.04, written specifically for the MS crowd (in other words, it talks about file systems, mount points, app installation, etc). Hopefully, by the end, your 'friend' will realize just how easy Ubuntu can be to use and start down a long path of exploration with a new operating system."
In the fine summary, I mean.
Scare quotes? Like "he's not really my friend, I'm humoring him until he coverts to Linux."?
"so-called" quotes? Like "He's more than a friend, but I won't come out of the closet for him."?
I don't get it. It's distracting. It reduces whatever value this tutorial may have had. It certainly seems to reinforce the arrogant attitude "You're smart, I don't understand why you aren't doing exactly what I do."
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
perhaps Ubuntu will gain some (damned) soles.
The last thing Linux needs is cursed footwear!
Sorry...
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it would be nice to have seen the author pay heed to the fact that people don't use computers for their operating systems
Whoa there cowboy! This is Slashdot. This is where OSes are for religious zealotry. What are these applications of which you speak?
That's a bit like what happened when I tried to get my brother to switch to Ubuntu. When I called him later and asked him how it was working for him, he informed me that he had switched back to Windows.
His reason? "I couldn't get the antivirus to install."
"Operating systems suck: you're better off using only the BIOS" --trainsaw.com
"They will have problems where ever they go."
Too true. I remember a friend of mine doing tech support at this big company and he told me that some woman had run out of hard drive space so she started deleting things because she never used those files.
She started in the Windows directory.
You say that like it's a bad thing. If you know what you're doing, there's loads of useless crap in the Windows directory.
What are these applications of which you speak?
vim, ssh, screen, a decent terminal (cygwin doesn't count), partimage, rysnc, apache, postfix, courier, squirrelmail, etc.
It was a crisis for him, and as far as I'm concerned he's a total sweetie. And it was a weekend.
It's good to have friends you can be like that with, ya know?
Hmm, I don't think I've EVER heard one man refer to another as "a total sweetie."
However, I agree that it's good to have friends that you know you can call at 2am.
Last night I played a blank tape at full volume. The mime next door went nuts.
Like the guy said, loads of useless crap.