Linked by Preston Liam Whels on Wed 16th Apr 2003 18:07 UTC
Put yourself in his/her shoes. You're a budding young technical writer and the one word you hear popping up in almost every tech-related conversation is, you guessed it, Linux. Now look in the mirror and try to tell yourself you're more than a writer. After all, you write about technology because it not only interests you, but you're accurate and fair enough to tell it like it is. Maybe not.
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It's all a matter of what works best for a given task. If you want to do something that can best be done using Windows, then by all means use Windows. Same goes for MacOS, FreeBSD or Linux.
I personally don't care how many people switch to Linux or some other operating system. Why should I?
I know that Linux works perfectly for my needs, that's why I use it. That doesn't mean I want all my friends to switch to Linux if they are perfectly happy using something else.
Should we strive to make Linux more user friendly? I don't know. First you'd have to realize that user friendlyness does not mean the same to everyone. For some people, the ability to chain different commands together on the commandline to achieve some unique result is important, for other people the ability to change a setting by clicking a button is important and yet other people have completely different needs/desires.. I want a system that I find easy to use, and for me that is Slackware Linux. I don't care if everyone else finds my OS of choice easy or hard to use - the point is, it works for me.
If you are not willing to learn to navigate a new operating system, then why would you want to switch to it? I am personally getting sick and tired of new users who want everything to work 'just like in windows' but don't want to invest the time in learning how to achieve that or at least realize that Linux *is not* windows, and works differently. Those people who just want a Windows clone should just stay with the original.