“Like everything Free, Linux is too complicated with no documentation and you need a doctor degree to install a text editor.”
Say what? I’ve never seen a graphic version of linux that didn’t come with a text editor and usually a more powerful version than notepad. If you want something different, you open Software Manager, type in text editor and you’ll get a dozen results and all of them are safe to use. Hard to find free windows software that doesn’t come with a virus, malware, spyware etc. I remember the good old days when download.com had some decent stuff but at some point it went downhill. So now you have to pay for something safe.
Where people get confused is in having too many choices with linux. 10 different distros and each one can run one of a dozen text editors, from the basic notepad type to the type for programmers with line numbers, syntax highlighting and more.
I use Leafpad for basic stuff and sublime for code. Mousepad is another good basic one but Leafpad takes less than a second to fire up. Gedit is a common one, Kate is another as is Nano.
Statements like needing a doctor’s degree to install a text editor are way outdated. Maybe 20 years ago it might have made sense.
I’ve been seeing quite a few linux posts here but most of them are too techy for me and I’ve been running linux as my desktop(laptop) OS for over 10 years. Seeing these techy articles makes people think you have to be techy to run linux.
Most people can’t even install an Operating System.
I just thought that it was an amusing rant complete with Eastern Block style written “dialect” and he does make a few good points. The guy obviously was not being completely serious. There are plenty of good text editors and even “office” type packages available for Linux. And they are typically not any harder to install than software for Windows as long as you don’t hit some type of snag.
Absolutely... The only time I have needed the console/command line was in setting up more advanced things the average user might never need, like a local VPN server, or Virtual Machine.To set these up in Windows is not a cake walk either. Other than these incidents it has been all easy to use point and click, drag and drop, Graphic Interface just like Windows. The newer versions are extremely user friendly, just as easy as windows but without all the issues that come with windows.