On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Rick Engebretson wrote: > Pardon me for being dumb, but a major hurdle to learning Linux is the > directory. At least you don't call them "folders". :) > The file abbreviations are made for the text console and > keyboard, but with a nice GUI a descriptive name system would really > help. The concept of directory is the same in Linux and Windows. I think what you mean to say is that the names of the directories, and why things are put in the place they are, is obscure. Nothing about "/etc" says "configuration files" and nothing about "/var" says "logs and spools". I found this difficult too in the beginning. Eventually you'll be used to it. > Also, the directory tree seems less than hierarcical. No, it's hierarchal. It's a perfect tree, unless you count symlinks and hard links. Windows has a hierarchal directory structure, too, except for the whole C drive, D drive thing. > MS Windows (since 3.0) does have a very clean directory and system > configuration structure. I disagree, but perception of "clean" is personal preference. To each his (or her, or its) own. > But even simple configuration of Linux isn't simple. I've used Red Hat and Debian, and found that configuration stuff with RH can be confusing. I like Debian much better. Maybe try another distro. Just my take on the Windows -> Linux conversion. Dan