Catch-22!

[George Toft]

Unix is simply a different way if thinking.  Once you make the
transition, you will find Windows very irritating and hard to use.  I
recently encountered a problem that had to be solved using Windows, and
I spent over 3 hours on the solution, including the time to mail to a
list and ask for advice.  This was a 10 second (because I type slow)
solution under Unix.

Have patience.  It took me 4 months to make the transition, and this was
while I was working full-time, and going to college.  Border's made a
few bucks off me as I bought (or read in the store) every Linux book
they had.  I was motivated - my Windows machine blue-screened about once
per hour (range was 5 minutes to 3 hours, with the median at 1 hour). 
53 Windows reinstalls with various configurations, including changing
out every piece of hardware had no effect.  When I changed the OS, I
stopped having problems.

After making the transition, I needed to rewrite an old Visual Basic
application I had running under Windows.  That app tooke me 30 hours to
write using VB.  It took me 3 hours to write using Tcl with the book
open learning as I wrote it.  This was more than just a translation or a
port - I was rewriting it from scratch and memory.

Hang in there.

George



> Taliesin MacAran wrote:
> 
> That gets me Can't open perl script "mcpan": No such file or directory
> 
> *SIGH*
> 
> I have the feeling that I'm too dumb to use Linux.
> This is not the first time I've felt this way.
> Guess I'm not enuff of a 'puter Geek.
> 
> Lee
> 
> On Sun, 2002-10-20 at 22:58, Craig White wrote:
> 
>      as root - try
> 
>      perl mcpan -e 'install modules Test::Harness'
> 
>      Craig
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