[LUNI] Request Help with ClamAv

[Martin Maney]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 08:15:54AM -0500, Svaldi, Fred E GS wrote:
> How long does it take to learn Linux well enough to be able to say
> goodbye to Windows and use it as your primary computer OS?  I suspect it
> takes a number of years. 

Depends on how you're using it.  To learn to use a preconfigured,
preinstalled setup takes not much longer than the time to boot it up;
to learn to rebuild system components and assume responsibility for
managing the overall configuration will take a bit longer; could easily
be years depending on where you're starting from, how much time and
effort you put into it, your natural aptitude, what resources you can
tap to help you when you hit something you don't [yet] understand...

Arguably Windows still makes it easier to drop some package someone
else has built into your machine... until two of them start fighting
and you have to go back and reinstall everything to make it behave
nicely again, anyway.  Windows' learning curve isn't all that much
shallower than a modern Linux distro's if they're compared on a level
field (both installed and configured on the machine), though that's
hard to see if you've already passed through it.  OTOH, it is rather a
lot shorter, since the average user never gets into the foothills,
whereas Linux makes it easy to get lost in the mountains.  :-)

-- 
We found that we were making mistakes due to the complexity.  Then we
wrote scripts to write the configs for us, and using these scripts, we
made mistakes in a faster, more automated manner.  Something needed to
be done.  -- Jeff Allen, A Gentle Introduction to Cricket