What makes it so hard?
10 Mar 2005Many is the time where I’ve cursed Redmond when the gremlins strike. But it struck me funny when a newbie asked if these Linux guys are idiots or something. It was such an odd statement that I couldn’t think of anything to say. This individual was not a technie by any stretch but she was comfortable working with PCs, the Internet and all.
It seems as though she’d picked up a Linux magazine that had a bit of Windows bashing inside. She picked apart an article about problems word processing in Windows and how the author solved all his problems by switching to Linux.
She thought it was pretty funny when she described another Linux expert who took 5 hours to install Windows XP. She said it takes her less than an hour and that includes the office stuff and games.
Her take on it is that these guys purposely make things harder than they are to justify their paygrade or whatever. And then she gave me one of those knowing stares…like she meant me too!