[Gllug] Treats for Windows refugees

[Mark Williams]

On Monday 05 Sep 2005 10:32, Tom Schutzer-Weissmann wrote:
> Some friends of mine have seen the light and are trying out Linux. I'm
> trying to remember things that came as pleasant surprises when I started
> using Linux, and invite anyone to chip in with their own.
>
> I'm not talking about the big benefits, like security, flexibility,
> freedom, more the little things they can try out and enjoy:
>
> - symlinks
> - grep
> - the loopback device
> - modprobe

urpmi or equivalent. For those 'Oh damn I need xxx' moments. So fast over 
broadband!

slocate. apropos.  sudo?

multiple desktops!

ssh - see their happy smiles when you run 'eject; sleep 5; eject -t' on their 
machine without telling them :)
who - for after the above!

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Mark
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