Kevin Marcus says:
Unfortunately, however, there are a lot of things that a lot of people can't do in a unix system. Unix is probably the most widely used unfriendly cryptic, and complicated operating system today.
Unix is perfectly easy to use. Its no worse than DOS. I'm constantly amazed by people saying "why, Unix is so unfriendly! What does "ls" mean to a naive user". Well, what does "dir" mean to a naive user? Since when is "dir" the intuitive way to list the contents of something? Now, its true that Windows is friendlier than DOS, but there are good windowing systems on Unix that provide equally easy to use front ends. Anyone who claims that "Unix" is unfriendly hasn't looked at the machine that they are using -- or they are bigots who think that the strange commands that they know are natural whereas other people's are magically unnnatural.
With the upcoming of Linux, this will probably change somewhat in the future, but until I can teach my secretary how she can use latex to type and print her letters, we are going to be stuck with getting us whatever the bastards at MicroSoft think we want.
Teach her how to use FrameMaker, or IslandWrite, or something similar. IslandWrite is no more unfriendly than MacWrite was. If you want to teach her to use latex, thats actually quite feasable, but its not needed. Perry