11 Dec
2011
11 Dec
'11
2:08 p.m.
A friend who rented a room off me for a couple of
years wa s the first
to say this to me. I would often go to him with Linux problems and
queries and it took him quite some time to wrap his head around the
idea that I was powerfully averse to scripting and coding. It is very
alien to the Unix mindset, which is, yes, by programmers for
programmers. This makes it sometimes very unfriendly to
non-programmers.
As this particular friend said to me: "it is only now that I am
starting to understand how /deeply/ bizarre some of this stuff must
seem to you, as a non-programmer!"
I still find it bizarre that anyone would buy and use a computer and
_not_ want to program it... Mind you, I also find it strange that people
buy electronci devices and dont remove the covers within at most 1 hour
of gettign them home...
BTW: A friend of mine knows all and everything
about Windows. But he
simply can't wrap his mind around Unix. Just like you.
:=ACD Hurrah! It is not just me!