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[Rob Ward]

Hi Thomas,

I would like to add my encouragement to you (and any others who may feel 
the same as Thomas).

I also dabbled with Linux in the early years (RedHat mainly in the 
90's?), and while impressed with the open source, I found it 
frustrating, and not very productive.  However I have recently left my 
teaching world behind and I am no longer obliged to run MS OS's. So I 
have embraced the XUbuntu flavour Linux 100%, as it appeared to be 
closest to the MS-XP I left behind.  It was a crash course for the first 
6 months, but as time went by the productivity boomed and the problems 
were whittled away.

I do not write code for Linux and I am a small time command line hacker 
(read: cut and paste) so I have low level expertise.  Now though I 
consider it equally as productive as my old XP experience, and I feel 
quite comfortable.

If I can do it then so can nearly everyone, you too! Best wishes.

Cheers, RobXP to XUbuntu <http://www.laketyersbeach.net.au/XP2XU.html>


On 23/07/16 12:55, JWFJ wrote:
> Thomas Blasejewicz wrote:
>> Personal message
>> Good "morning" (1:30 am) from Japan
>> Please excuse this intrusion, but I wanted to send you a personal
>> message to thank you for your encouragement.
>> You, and one more person, were the only ones (in over 8 years) that
>> offered me some positive feedback = encouragement.
>>
>> However, after trying (not "trying" - desperately struggling) to get
>> friendly with Linux for more than EIGHT years (probably thousands of
>> hours of effort), I have now given up.
>> When over 8 years of struggle still almost does not get me anywhere
>> past the basically automatic installation of the OS, when the concept
>> of "working in this environment" forever remains a utopia "over the
>> rainbow" ... then the whole idea of using Linux is unrealistic.
>>
>> I envy the people who have no problems.
>> Me .. problems were practically the ONLY thing I ever experienced. I
>> presume, I am just not smart enough to use Linux.
>> And I am really sorry, that I could not turn your encouragement into a
>> success story, like me becoming a happy, skilled Linux user.
>>
>> But, I wanted to express my gratitude for your advice.
>>
>> Thank you!
>> Thomas
>>

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