his is the way the world of Linux ends. Not with a whimper, but with a bang.
I grew up on a Unix command-line. BSD, I believe. I have dim memories of dialing up on a black and green Wyse50 terminal, sending e-mail with 'mail', reading newsgroups and playing Nethack in all its ASCII glory. I even became rather adept at vi. I was happy, ecstatic even, wrapped all snug and safe in my warm, green world of text and terminal beeps. But my friends all had 'IBM clones', and as I grew, so too did the technology. My early youth was tinged in the stark, cyan tones of CGA. My preteens were illustrated in glorious EGA, and as I came of age, so too did the startling, varied hues of SVGA. But I get ahead of myself. As a child, we did play games, primitive games, on these 'IBM clones'. Bolderdash, Centipede, Double-Dragon, Golden Axe. But no computer game could compare to the imagination of a ten-year-old boy! And so for the better part of my youth I remained shrouded by the eerie, flickering glow of scrolling text. My first experience with a 'Graphical User Interface' was an X-terminal. Then it was Red Hat Linux (http://www.redhat.com/) all the way, until Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntulinux.org/) walked itself onto my desktop nearly a year ago... and there things should have ended.

A Linux user documents his attempt to try out this "Windows" thing.

Continues: http://madpenguin.org/cms/index.php/?m=show&id=5937&page=1

I readily admit that i have used no other operating system other than windows.......except for some dos thing back in the 80's on an apple II clone......i would spend hours typing code into it just to see a line bounce randomly around the screen....woohoo.

i would like to get my feet wet with something linux.
i see the trials that non-windows users go through when using windows........but i get a warm fuzzy safe feeling with windows XP (which is the whole point, i guess). ive never had a virus, or spyware, or trojan........but i am diligent with scans and who i choose to let loose unsupervised on my computer.
i find it easier to use than driving car.

Windows systems really doesn't bother me as an OS. Its Microsoft and the monoply they have that irritates me.

It is hard to jump into anything when your used to another but totally closing your mind to other options is what also bothers me. I want to learn linux and I find it does give me headaches sometimes but nothing windows didn't do when i first started learning it.

I was talking to an adult awhile back about Christopher Columbus. They just would not believe me that he did not think the world was flat. The problem with the journey was the question of how large the earth was....not whether or not it was flat...I know that has nothing to do with computers but it can show you how people will not open up their minds...specially with history. History is often written by the victors...so the other side does not get put into the books. Microsoft got the victory in the computer wars you could say and now we deal with the monoply it is.