Anonymous coward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 07:01:03PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: >>John Hasler wrote: >>>Kevin Mark writes: >>> >>>>compare what you get from the windows world. no community. no >>>>help. need to buy $$$ books. pay $$$$ for tech support. >> >>This is an outright falsehood. There are just as many, if not more, >>MS Windows oriented user groups/communities as there are for >>GNU/Linux. Granted, tech support is still expensive. > >But the "visible output" from the Windoze communities is of much lower >quality. Googling for an answer to some Windoze problem rarely turns up >much in the way of a useful result. With Linux, you tend to get more >results than you can shake a stick at...
This seems to be partly due to the nature of issues' contexts. You have trouble with XFree, then you post relevant parts of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 and /var/log/XFree86.0.log (you are usually specifically asked for this files). You find a glitch in MSW, and there you go trying to describe the "click-path" that triggers it, the un-copy-pasteable error messages in some dialog boxes, the possibly missing display elements, etc. Some of the questions and answers in MSW-related forums and newsgroups involve a lot of imagination regarding to screen navigation and iconography. In Linux(should I say Unix?)-land almost anything is a cut-n-paste away. Not to mention that it ain't easy for your local guru to ssh-in and medicate your system :-) -- Cristian Gutierrez http://www.dcc.uchile.cl/~crgutier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED] "UNIX is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has alot of things going on in the background." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
