Would this be a Windows 9 Killer

MilesAhead said:

Stuff like kedit and kmail would blow up frequently. Perhaps they are perfected now though. :)

I don't use KDE.
I haven't had any issues with Gedit (Ubuntu 10) and Pluma (LM16+).

I use Thunderbird for email.
It seems to work like it does in Windows.
Since I find that all email programs are stupidly complicated, I hate it on both platforms.

MilesAhead said:

You could try a graphical point and click package manager. But I do believe if you totally shun the console in Linux you'll be running a crippled system. Especially stuff like text manipulation and stream editing.. there's stuff you can do in a couple of lines on the console you'd have to write a program to do in Windows. On many forums people want to do complex text substitutions and filtering in Windows. I point them to sed one liner pages and Windows ports of sed and nawk.

I find the Man pages are too difficult to use, so I can't be bothered spending the time to work out how to use grep, find, etc..

I get my friend to write Linux scripts when I need something tricky done.
He's used Linux Distros for ~14 years, so he can write something in a few minutes (it would take me days).

xkcd: tar

MilesAhead said:

Linux was expand the package and spend 2 weeks getting it to work right. But the difference was the Linux, once configured, was solid like a rock. Windows you had to keep fixing and fixing and fixing the same programs to keep them working.

In a windows program that did not work how many weeks would it take to get it to run without the source code? At lease in Linux you can fix it in windows that is a big ?.