Linked by Gilboa Davara on Thu 30th Jun 2005 12:29 UTC
If you've heard about Linux and feel like giving it a go or if you want to try Linux but you're too afraid it'll shew up your computer, this article is for you. Read it, feel free to take what you need and ignore the rest. This is not a tutorial, it's a README-FIRST-like article. It should help you to take that first dive.
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I beleive ALT Linux has bytecode interpreter ON, so no problems.
And:
Yup, that's "better", if you can remember it. I can, incidentally, (usually I'm remembering "fink install ..." or "rpm install...") but a lot of other people (read: non-geeks) have better things to do with their time than remembering cryptic commands.
No problems: launch package manager, check-in font package, press install button. You're done.
Compare to equivalent action in windows.
As for ViM vs VS, there is a plenty of IDEs starting from KDevelop and to Eclipse, but you windows devs should understand one simple thing: that most programs you'll need IDE and debugger for, I'll write in perl/python.
It will be 10x smaller, and so trivial to write and debug that I'll be happy with ViM.
Windows programmers' misusage of script language is ridiculous.