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Personally I can't imagine using linux without going into the cmd line at somepoint

How about Star wars via the terminal....

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Well that's good to hear. It's 1 thing to be able to learn it as & when I have the inclination & time to do so, but it would be a pain to have to be forced to learn it, just to do basic stuff or get stuff to work.

Could`nt agree with you more.

Speaking of getting stuff to work [& going off on a bit of a tangent], please tell me that someone's come up with some proper drivers for the Logitech MX1000, or at least a tool to map the commands/functions I want to specific buttons on mice with more than 3 buttons. It was rather annoying using the Back button in Firefox only to have it do paste-from-clipboard instead of making Firefox go back a page.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MX1000Mouse

I have to disagree quite strongly on this 1. A lot of Linux users want more Windows users to make the switch to Linux, but the majority of Windows users tend to be fairly content with Windows. I'd also say that the majority of Windows users that do decide to give Linux a try only do so out of curiosity, rather than need. If they needed to switch to Linux, then perhaps I could see your point about them being the ones to put in a bit of extra effort, but if you're only trying something out of curiosity you don't want to spend hours tearing your hair out in frustration, or googling & trawling endless forums & mailing lists just to get it to work; something that Windows tends to do most of the time without much effort at all. To me, it's kind of like the difference between staying in a hotel, & roughing it in a tent. Whilst there are some who would choose the tent [especially if it was given to them for free], most people would rather the comfort of the hotel.

I really dont think those "Linux users" are too interested one way or another and if anything i think those "hardcore users" you previously mentined in partucular would rather we all stopped coming and left them to their terminals probably......us and our bloody GUI`s

I`m with you 100% on things being as simple as they can possibly be m8.I myself spent countless posts arguing that point with some of the gurus out there during my first weeks & months.
Automatix anyone???

Being a complete newb to pC`s it`s hard for me to relate to some of the arguments i hear when for me...Windows & Linux have been the same either way.Both new,both strange,both different.......both confusing,both fun....both frustrating.Both absolutely hilarious at times.

No matter what browser i use

Well, my first exposure to proper PCs was with the 386s we had at school, but we weren't really allowed to experiment much with them, just use them in the manner dictated. [Although that didn't stop us using the head of the computer department's login details to play Lemmings when he wasn't around, so that he wouldn't be able to prove who'd been running what. ] I believe they were running Windows 3.1 [or was it 3.11? maybe Dilli remembers ].

I didn't really have much of a chance to freely experiment with x86-based computers until I got my first [a 286 laptop with 640KB RAM & DOS, second hand for £20] in 1997. A few months later I fished the case & motherboard of a 486 out of a skip, & bought the rest of the parts, & worked my way up from there.

I never sat down at a pc really until last March although i did have the obligatory commodore64 as a teen.I was much more interested in my snooker table back then i think.....amongst other things.
Still blame that track & field game for the Carpals Tunnel Syndrome all these years later though..