Old Weird Ward
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Monday, August 18, 2003
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I haven't been doing much with Linux, although it's installed on a partition of this drive. It is stable, and reasonably easy to work with.
The big problem I have with the OS is that working at the command line can be a little confusing. In the Windows/MSDOS OSs that I've worked with, a file name with a directory path uses "\" (backslash) to indicate a directory, and is preceded by a drive letter, like this:
C:\workdata\word\resume\hireward.doc
In the Unix/Linux world, the same sort of directory path looks like this:
home/workdata/write/resume/hireward.rtf
(NB - MS Word isn't available for Linux - I use OpenOffice instead)
So, the big problem isn't the OS, it's Old Weird Ward getting confused with which slash to use - \ or / , that is the question. Sigh.... I'll get there, to the point that it's an automatic thing, eventually.
I have the same sort of personal issue with Open Office - it just doesn't work the way I expect it to. I've been using Word for years, starting with Word for DOS 5/Word for Windows 4.2. I'm used to the way I've been doing things. In the MS Office environment, the things that I do are completely automatic - I don't think, I just do. In Open Office, I have to stop and think, and then do.
If Microsoft ever releases their Real Big Seller, Microsoft Office, for Linux/Unix, two things will happen:
1. Office instantly takes 95% of ALL the desktop throughout the world. Why? Because the Office files, no matter what OS they are generated on, will be compatible, and everybody and his grandmother knows, at the very least, the minimal basics of MS Word.
2. Microsoft will then start to "tweak" Linux a little, here and there, to make the MS Office suite "run better in Linux", until there is a unique "Microsoft Linux". That'll take about two years.
It is the official opinion of OWW that the only reason that Microsoft hasn't already done 1 and 2 above is concerns about the US Goverment really getting their knickers twisted up about monopoly law, and the EU doing the same thing.
If Microsoft decides that they want to really Take Over The World, they will do 1 and 2 above, and there won't be Jack anyone can do about it.
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