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Originally Posted by ApK
If "using" means only using the desktop apps and user controls that are designed with the most appliance-like and user friendly GUIs, then I could recommend that anyone just start using any of them...assuming we are talking about modern GUI desktop Linux versions for Linux.
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I'm not bothering to define "using". You're the one who seems to think that "using Linux" needs to inherently mean some deeper understanding of the OS than "using Windows" does—or "using iOS" or "using android" does. Use means use. Nothing more nothing less. It all begins with becoming familiar with the interface, which in turn begins by "just using it."
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Originally Posted by ApK
Most iOS and Android users have no proficiency--or need or desire for proficiency-- beyond that.
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I don't know what you're trying to say here.
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Originally Posted by ApK
There are just too many variations and options and basic adjustments that require the command line or informed editing of files, even compared to Windows, for a user with that appliance-level of needs to use it comfortably unless the essence of the OS is completely hidden from them, as in an embedded system or appliance like an eReader, or Tivo, or a replacement operating environment that's closer to the appliance end of the spectrum, like Android itself, or OSX.
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Again ... I fail to understand why you think being comfortable with all the options/variations/command-line/configuration-files is "required" to "use" Linux. Nor why even if someone DID want to become proficient at that sort of stuff, that they still couldn't best begin that journey by "just using it"? You can install|launch|use|update programs (or update the OS) without ever opening a command-line or editing a configuration file on Linux.
For some strange reason, you seem to believe that "using Linux" equals "
system administration" while "using Windows" equals "
farting around on the internet and checking email." And for the life of me, I don't understand why. "Using" both can be as simple or as complex as the needs/desires of the user in question. And it all begins with "just using it."