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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > On 10/05/10 15:28, John Hansen wrote: >> I am of the opinion that many who move from Windows to Linux will find >> the filing system very >> different and not a little difficult to get used to. In that respect I >> prefer the Windows filing system. >> >> >> John W >> > > It can take a bit of getting used to but it's much more powerful than > having drive letters. The majority of the time installing applications > can be done through a package manager (so no need to worry about where > to put stuff), and any user specific files (settings, documents etc) are > stored in the user's individual home directory off /home > > If you really look into Windows then you'll see it's not as simple as it > looks, for instance... > > My Documents on Windows 95/98 > > C:\Windows\My Documents or C:\Windows\Profiles\Username\My Documents (if > Windows has user profiles enabled)... > > My Documents on Windows NT 4: > > C:\WINNT\Profiles\Username\My Documents > > My Documents on Windows 2000 & XP: > > C:\Documents and Settings\Username\My Documents > > My Documents on Vista and Windows 7: > > C:\Users\Username\Documents > > Then you have application settings which can be stored in Local Settings > or Application Data (at least on Windows 2000 & XP) or in AppData, > Appdata\Local, Appdata\LocalLow on Windows Vista and 7. > > Compare that to Linux... > > Documents: > > /home/username > > Application settings: > > /home/username/.application-name > > or /etc/applicationname/ > > (Okay I know sometimes settings may be kept in folders inside folders > such as Gnome applications). > > Adding external media too is easy on Linux, nowadays anyway... stuck in > a USB stick, memory card, CD/DVD and chances are an icon will appear on > the Desktop, and usually it also appears in /media with a readable name > such as the name of the disc/memory card/stick etc. > > Rob > Thanks Rob, I was just about to reply citing something similar to the above. It looks like with windows vista onwards Microsoft finally managed to get some sort of logical idea for user accounts, but how long has it taken, them,. about 15 + years I would say, Linux was doing \home\username back when i started with slackware in about 1995, i guess unix was doing it way before then. I personally find Windows Xp very confusing, esp when i come to it having used Linux. I agree we need follow up support, perhaps one thing we could do would be to get people subscribed to the list, I don't mind giving support but an answer on list means that its open to scrutiny by others, and in some cases people agree in others, they don't and offer a better or correct response, but can also explain why another response was wrong. Paul - -- Paul Sutton - www.zleap.net DCGLUG MEETINGS Next Paignton Lug meet : 3pm Saturday June 5th - Shoreline Next Holsworthly meet : 2pm Saturday June 19th - White Hart -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkvoI6sACgkQaggq1k2FJq0WSgCdEK0NuG6BQ7XcIuJrsPJgs2mg uTAAnAhl+mRloU6m/mtGzVG+kyoMypA4 =7Ks+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html