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Originally Posted by devilsadvocate
Seriously though, There's really no single OS that's right for everyone, and there never will be. If you try, you get...Windows.
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Which is indeed very trying.
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I'm not saying everyone should go to a big-league university and spend thousands on IT-related education, you don't have to be a genius to work on/understand computers (YES, even Linux), but if one goes driving, one should know how to change a flat tire.
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And many who drive cars don't.
I've been drawing the analogy between cars and personal computers for years. You can own and drive a car without being a mechanic or having a working knowledge of the principles of operation of the four stroke internal combustion engine.
But if you use a computer, you
do to some extent need to be a mechanic and have some idea of how the machine does what it does to make truly effective use of it. We've come some distance since the "dreaded C:\> prompt", but we still have a way to go.
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Dennis