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I can't say this any better than the original author:[INDENT] "You'd be amazed how many people...come to Linux, expecting to find essentially a free, open-source version of Windows. Quite often, this is what they've been told to expect by over-zealous Linux users. However, it's a paradoxical hope. It is logically impossible for any thing to be better than any other thing whilst remaining completely identical to it. A perfect copy may be equal, but it can never surpass. So when you gave Linux a try in hopes that it would be better, you were inescapably hoping that it would be different. Too many people ignore this fact, and hold up every difference between the two OSes as a Linux failure."
I've always been a Mac person. Several years ago, my software engineer husband asked me to try Linux. I started out with Linspire, and enjoyed using it, but didn't like the way software would disappear with upgrades. He switched me to SUSE; later I used Debian (now Debian Lenny) on my desktop and Ubuntu on my laptop. I like them both, but truth be told, I have never been able to learn text commands. I can usually figure stuff out with the GUI, but sometimes I need Hubby to bail me out. I'm so spoiled having live-in tech support!
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