* Roy Schestowitz peremptorily fired off this memo:
> Bringing a Windows mindset to a GNU/Linux world
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>| just ran across a level of stupid so off the charts I had to immediately
>| comment on it here lest my inaction unwittingly foster an environment
>| tolerant of such stupidity.
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> http://www.cydeweys.com/blog/2008/06/12/always-sudo/
That article does bring up a real problem:
You probably dont need sudo but I have got into the habit of adding
it before pretty much everything.
A new Linux user will (generally) need quite a bit of guidance from
fellow Linux users to avoid silly behaviors. And a commentor makes a
good point that is true even on Windows:
It's the dabbling "power-users" who are most prone to
blowing things up as they mess around with tools they don't
fully understand.
Anyone up for a random Registry edit? <grin>
--
"Microsoft has had competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have
museums to document this stuff."
-- Bill Gates, in a talk at the Computer History Museum
in Mountain View, Calif.
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