LUG. LinuxCommand.org: Learn the Linux command line. Write shell scripts. Ext2 IFS For Windows. GNOME. JACK Audio Connection Tookit - Qt GUI Interface. The Linux Documentation Project. The AGNULA project - The AGNULA home page. FSF - The Free Software Foundation. Linux is NOT Windows. In the following article, I refer to the GNU/Linux OS and various Free & Open-Source Software (FOSS) projects under the catch-all name of "Linux". It scans better. If you've been pointed at this page, then the chances are you're a relatively new Linux user who's having some problems making the switch from Windows to Linux.
This causes many problems for many people, hence this article was written. Many individual issues arise from this single problem, so the page is broken down into multiple problem areas. Problem #1: Linux isn't exactly the same as Windows. You'd be amazed how many people make this complaint. The specific reasons why people try Linux vary wildly, but the overall reason boils down to one thing: They hope Linux will be better than Windows. Therein lies the problem. It is logically impossible for any thing to be better than any other thing whilst remaining completely identical to it. No. Problem #2: Linux is too different from Windows Quite true. Problem #3: Culture shock d5w. Eric S. Raymond's Home Page. Welcome to my piece of the Web. I maintain quite a lot of open-source software, FAQs, and HTML documents, so this site is rather complex.
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