On Monday 07 May 2007 05:58:26 pm Earle Beason wrote:
Quite frankly I don't understand Linux, I don't know how to code , I don't know all the in and outs, however I am learning it as I go.
I guess I've been very unclear about this. No, you're not a "luser". You're willing to learn. (In fact, I suspect that learning may be one of the reasons you're into Linux.)
The people I mean to express scorn for are the people who come into support channels on IRC and say things like "Don't tell me to use the console, I don't want anything to do with text mode".
I meant to point out a certain stage of learning and development common to the average SuSE user in that they still rely on Windows. I, myself, was at that stage for about six years while I ran Linux professionally on text-only servers, and I'm still a bit of a newb when it comes to some of the GUI stuff.
People who are willing to learn a little, and who want their computer to do what _they_ want to do, not what what some corporate shill thinks they should want to do are the people who should run Linux.
There will always be people who shouldn't run Linux though. Some of them try because it's a free way to pirate and run Windows games. They have no interest in how the system works or what it's doing, they just want to click and go.
I don't consider Windows users undesirables. I don't hate people because they use Windows. There are some users who I really think shouldn't user Linux because they really aren't willing to learn anything new, and those people should use Windows.