[BadVista Advocate] Portland Project Linux

[Mark William Darbyshire]

I agree. I'm a relatively new user to free software (and I'm not even using
GNU/Linux at the moment because I'm only a teenager so can't afford my own
computer and the only computer I was allowed to install GNU on broke :'( ).
I find the layout of files in Linux *VERY* confusing in comparison to
Windows or Mac, both of which have much more straight-forward and
common-sense system folder setups. It's not a problem if I'm just using a
package manager, but it gets very difficult if I ever want to do something
manually. Perhaps experienced users have a better understanding of why
things are the way they are, but I just wish all the programs were in
subfolders of one central applications folder! It's my understanding that
the folders are the way they are because of limitations which existed twenty
years ago, but which aren't a problem today.

On 30/04/07, Fred Okuma <fred.k at ieee.org> wrote:
>
> At 19:36 -0700 2007/04/29, member greenarrow1 wrote:
> >...This is one of the problems I see in Linux which a new user would
> >not be able to
> >comprehend or figure out.  ...
>
> I agree.  Need local support, more stable or problem-free distros, to
> stop Vista and MS.
>
> Fred
>
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