Your feelings are from getting thrown into something new and clearly very different.Agreed. I reckon I'll get used to things eventually. And there's still that GUI side in Linux, though it's optional.
what would happen if you opened "My computer", selected your hd, and press shiftIt depends, it probably won't let me delete the core system files. However, as I'm not running Virtual PC, won't be testing that any time soon <smiley>. I did test what would happen if msdos.sys in Win 9X isn't as big as required. I killed the comment lines and WIndows wouldn't start up.
delete on your Windows box?
But then again, you do admit messing a LInux system, especially if you are temporarily running as root, is a lot easier than doing as much damage in a GUI environment. MOre power means more responsibility, as well.
I'll be manu-summarizing the following passage. Hope it is still intelligible.
I start in a tree view. moving up ann down read the nodes at the currentI suppose this could be some kind of a text mode GUI, similar to installers in DOS games or the dialog interface in Debian, only more sophisticated. Right?
level. Enter expands the sub tree for "installed packages". down arrow to
select the one called "Gnome". down arrow to "main" and press enter again.
get a long list of programs. there is a window at the bottom of the screen
with a short description of the object under the cursor. I here the selected
item and then it's short description. I'm currently loged into 4 text consoles
and one Gnome session. Which session do you think I just described?
Sounds nice to me at least. Let me think of some navigation examples in Windows, though:
Typing a Google search: Windows+r to open the run dialog, ie and enter to run iexplore. Google is my home page.
Deleting stuff in temp: windows+r, c:\temp\, enter, ctrl+a, shift+delete, y
Changing mouse settings: windows, c, m. Darn mnemonic as well, c to open the control panel, m to pick mouse.
Directory navigation: windows+r, c: enter, bo enter, p enter, p enter, a enter, pr enter. i i goes to:
C:\bookshelf\Programming Languages\Perl\All about Perl\prog\index.html
The difference to auto-completing is that I can browse things on a letter basis as well. Not to mention it reads the selection changes in real time (not the whole path just the selected item in a list view).
So, is it legal to make closed-source products that are based on open-source, like the Mozilla engine? Perhaps this is a common misconception, but I thought GPL disallows this.Releasing the source would allow someone to easily compete with them.
you can modify it's source to use one of the accessible libs.That's true. It might even be a realistic scenario to me some day. But the average computer user is no hacker, well, on second thought, perhaps the average Linux user is.
No matter what OS, having gotten used to something as the first or current OS of some kind does bring some legacy. I'd find Mac and Linux GUIs difficult too, for the exact same reason. And one friend of mine is a diehard Amiga user whose not really into Linux, OS X or Windows at all.I would make lots of mistakes if I tried to run Windows again.
Frankly speaking, though, I find I'm a lot more at home with Gnome than I am with OS X. The placement of the menu bar and better contrast makes a big difference. OH yes and it is great to have alt+f4 close a Window. Though for consistency's sake, alt+f1 to f3 should do something sensible as well. Do they do anything in Gnome? things that come to mind:
minimize, maximize, shade
or howabout switching favorite desktops or resoes?
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With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and more:
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila
