A perceived sense of inferiority

“The quote that grabbed me out of the aforementioned thread, was
this one.

“”It also ascertains a distinction among “classes”
of ubuntu (or linux) users – if you know the shell,
you’re in. If you are afraid of the shell (like meself, not
because I now feel more comfortable with a graphic environment, but
because I feel less comfortable with typing in commands i dont know
what they mean) – well, dunno, you’re afraid of the
shell.”

“I know, and I have experienced, a sort of
“inferiority” that occasionally swirls around Linux in
general. I have been told to RTFM, and also been told that if I
didn’t understand something, I shouldn’t be pursuing
it. It’s unfortunate. I make no apologies, but I accept that
snotty tone as the nature of the beast. After all, this entire
movement started out (as a loose explanation) as a challenge,
burgeoned into a hobby, became the domain of the geek, and is only
now becoming mainstream and accessible to the ordinary,
non-technophiliac John Q. Public. Maybe soon that snotty tone will
be gone altogether.”

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