I could not agree with you more on your points. I mean that everywhere I turn I run into pseudo-geeks who have no more than 4months experience with windows "icons" and that makes them a "guru". Even though they cannot explain to me what is happening under the hood of their PC, or how TCP/IP actually functions. Surely I blame Windows for this . I like to say that Windows makes people silly and uncreative. If you think I am wrong, then show me a cutting edge technology that emerged out of an enviroment that is saturated with windows. On the other hand, is is easy for me to point out that Linus and countless others did not get there computer knowledge/inspiration by using DOS or Windows 3x . No, they got their knowledge/inspiration by using an OS that demands that one gets a deeper knowledge of the underlying process the governs computers. Once this knowledge is obtained , then creativity/inovation comes naturally. Take the present crop of "MCSE'S" for example. Most of them that I know simply remembers a series of isolated facts and lacks a true understanding of the protocols that governs the computer industry.
I can attest to times when I spent long hours trying to get something under Linux to work, and when I finally got it solved I realized that the problem was greatly due to my lack of understanding of the principles that governed the process. In order words...Windows is no more "easier" than Linux, if you truly want to understand what is going on. I would even venture out and state that "Due to its openess, Linux is actually easier than windows " to "understand" since the docs and codes are right there for your eyeballs. How many MCSE's(the windows guru's) understand the simple notion that "an icon" is nothing more than a "shorcut" to an underlying processes, and it is those underlying processes that are actually doing the work. Therefore it behoves them to make every effort in trying to understand those underlying processes, not just "which button to click".
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I could not agree with you more on your points. I mean that everywhere I turn I run into pseudo-geeks who have no more than 4months experience with windows "icons" and that makes them a "guru". Even though they cannot explain to me what is happening under the hood of their PC, or how TCP/IP actually functions. Surely I blame Windows for this . I like to say that Windows makes people silly and uncreative. If you think I am wrong, then show me a cutting edge technology that emerged out of an enviroment that is saturated with windows. On the other hand, is is easy for me to point out that Linus and countless others did not get there computer knowledge/inspiration by using DOS or Windows 3x . No, they got their knowledge/inspiration by using an OS that demands that one gets a deeper knowledge of the underlying process the governs computers. Once this knowledge is obtained , then creativity/inovation comes naturally. Take the present crop of "MCSE'S" for example. Most of them that I know simply remembers a series of isolated facts and lacks a true understanding of the protocols that governs the computer industry. I can attest to times when I spent long hours trying to get something under Linux to work, and when I finally got it solved I realized that the problem was greatly due to my lack of understanding of the principles that governed the process. In order words...Windows is no more "easier" than Linux, if you truly want to understand what is going on. I would even venture out and state that "Due to its openess, Linux is actually easier than windows " to "understand" since the docs and codes are right there for your eyeballs. How many MCSE's(the windows guru's) understand the simple notion that "an icon" is nothing more than a "shorcut" to an underlying processes, and it is those underlying processes that are actually doing the work. Therefore it behoves them to make every effort in trying to understand those underlying processes, not just "which button to click".