Making Linux look harder than it is
Source: News Forge
This is an interesting obeservation actually, cause I certainly must agree that Linux is certainly not as 'hard' as everyone makes it out to be. Sure if you're talking about installing Linux back in the day of perhaps RedHat 5.0 or something, yeah it wasn't so easy (it wasn't impossible though), but with say RedHat 7.2, the installation process is almost as simple as a Windows NT or XP installation. Eitherways, here's an excerpt from the article.
"Many "gurus" teaching new users about Linux make it look harder than it needs to be, and apparently fail to explain that yes, you can make PowerPoint-style presentations in Linux, you can view Web Pages that use Flash animation and other "glitz" features, and that you can manage all your files though simple "point, click, drag and drop" visual interfaces. Could the biggest problem with Linux usability be that most of the people teaching newbies to use Linux are too smart and know too much?"
