As much as I love Linux, there are many who do not. I am willing to accept that. However, there is an individual who has requested help at a message board I visit quite frequently. The whole lot of us who post there are very willing to offer our help. However, he has started a thread billed as “why I don’t use Linux.” He claims to have spent many years studying computer science and knows a large number of programming languages. His main complaint is that the average user will find Linux more difficult than it needs to be.

I ask “Why do you feel it to be?” His response on the board has been rather lackluster and full of FUD. While I do not accuse him of being openly hostile to Linux, he is certainly not a prime example of the Linux community. He has allowed himself to believe falsehoods as well as to