Last semester I had a course about dos/windows (was called introduction to the computer world). I almost failed the course (I passed it only because the teacher was nice enough to understand and let me pass) because it was all about batch files, dos command and how to configure windows gui. I never used windows so I found it really difficult to finding a documentation that isn't as good as man pages.
Windows/dos may be as difficult if not more for a linux user than it is for a windows user to use linux. When you are used to the power and flexibility of linux (or any *nix) it is so hard to understand that you can't just use loop as you are used to (in my case the fact that I can program in asm is what saved me because I understood goto in dos)
Just as an example here is one question I had:
What is the space taken by a directory on a floppy? (because I'm used to so many filesystem I just couldn't remember how fat16 worked...)
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Ever looked at portaPuTTY instead of putty? It's storing it's config in a files instead of a registry.
Last semester I had a course about dos/windows (was called introduction to the computer world). I almost failed the course (I passed it only because the teacher was nice enough to understand and let me pass) because it was all about batch files, dos command and how to configure windows gui. I never used windows so I found it really difficult to finding a documentation that isn't as good as man pages. Windows/dos may be as difficult if not more for a linux user than it is for a windows user to use linux. When you are used to the power and flexibility of linux (or any *nix) it is so hard to understand that you can't just use loop as you are used to (in my case the fact that I can program in asm is what saved me because I understood goto in dos) Just as an example here is one question I had: What is the space taken by a directory on a floppy? (because I'm used to so many filesystem I just couldn't remember how fat16 worked...)