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Re: [News] Linux Bashing Based on Self Interest, Propaganda, Old Linux Experience, or Lack of Experience

[Just answering some of Roy's questions, as I don't have much more to add to the original discussion]

"Roy Schestowitz" <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1259747.0RnALRuKfD@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

From other points of view such as usability, there is another factor:
duration of use. Was it you who argued that "shortcut" is better terminology
than "link" (or soft and hard links, which are more proper interpretations)?

I hesitate to say "yes", because of all misunderstandings that have arisen around my posts. Let me phrase it as "I think a computer novice is more likely to guess what a 'shortcut' does than what a 'symbolic link' does."


I suspect it was HQ who said that file extensions made more sense than
executability attribute. Now that's just preposterous.

I was also on HQ's side here, but I think your summary here oversimplifies our (my? not sure if HQ and I see things exactly eye to eye on this) position. If you want, I can clarify my position, but I'm not really interested in actually arguing for it here. FWIW, I agree with you that the statement "file extensions made more sense than executability attribute", taken literally and exactly as is, is preposterous. That wasn't what I (we?) were arguing for.


At any rate, 6 month seems semi-reasonable to me (much more than 24
hours, anyway). However, I usually hold off until I see a *significant*
improvement. For example, I tried to convert a couple of people with Redhat
Linux Shrike. They didn't like it. So I didn't push them. It wasn't until I
discovered Ubuntu that I went back to them and told them Linux has really
improved in usability, and now I'm telling people to give Ubuntu a try.
Between Shrike and Ubuntu, I think that's at least a year, maybe a year and
a half.


Again, my issue is that I believe 24 hours is really too much of an
exaggeration, and people simply won't take you seriously if you tell them
Linux changes dramatically enough within that timeperiod. I think you will
convert *FEWER* people by making claims like this.


It was a figure of speech, for illustrational purposes or for an argument to
be made. You take it far too literally or perceive it in a way that suits
your (possibly unconscious) will.

Well, I didn't like the article, and I was trying to articulate why I didn't like it. But I've never taken a journalism class, so maybe I'm not qualified to critize it. ;)


- Oliver


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