"jim" <jim@home.net> wrote in news:I9%2k.1644$s77.213@bignews3.bellsouth.net:

> I am now trying Ubuntu 8.04 and I'll just be ****ed if the simple stuff
> isn't still hard in Linux!!

It's not necessarily hard. It's just different. It's "hard" becuase we have been used to doing things a
certain way for years, and learning a new way to do it seems daunting.

The easy network accessibility you mention in Windows is one of it's huge security holes.

I finally sat down today, and spent it getting Ubuntu up and running, with Xnews working. Xnews is
important enough to me that I won't run anything it won't run on. I had it running in Wine before, but
buggy as hell. Well, it just took some searching and experimentation and I have it running (almost)
perfectly. There's just one graphical glitch left which is just a minor bother.

Getting around the Linux file system is a major pain for a long time Windows user to learn, and being
denied the ability to do what I wish with my files is annoying. All that took was getting used to opening up a
terminal and typing 'sudo nautilus'. I grew up on CP/M, so I can learn this stuff. Windows makes you lazy.

I bet if you take the time, you'll find using Ubuntu just as easy, if not more so.