Forget what you're doing sometimes?

[SZF2001]

Sometimes I find that, even though I've been using Ubuntu for only two years now compared to the eight years I used Windows, when a family member needs help on a Windows box ad it's probably something really simple, you forget and have the mentality of "ugh, it should just be working"?

Maybe Ubuntu is making us (more) lazy, but who am I to say - you can use it with whatever difficulty you wish... But still. Anything like that ever happen to you? Just forgetting the little common things in Windows?

[DirtDawg]

I couldn't find the Desktop folder on a Windows box the other day.

[FurryNemesis]

I forgot some minor settings somewhere that my parents really needed adjusting. It's disturbing, but at least one day the XP chug will set in and I'll have an excuse to install (probably by then) Feisty.

[cunawarit]

Just forgetting the little common things in Windows?

All the time, for both Windows and Debian, which are the two OSs I use regularly.

[Magnes]

I was trying to switch to another desktop on Windows once.

[Sunflower1970]

I was trying to switch to another desktop on Windows once.

lol

I had to use XP last night for something, and I tried to do the same thing.

[3rdalbum]

Before now, I've inserted a USB flash drive and waited close on a minute for it to appear on the Windows desktop. And I'm CONSTANTLY trying to unmount flash drives by right-clicking on them and choosing "Eject" (which doesn't work on Win).

[insane_alien]

i keep typing 'sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude upgrade' in the prompt.

that and i keep looking up the top for the applications menu.

[Adamant1988]

Sometimes I find that, even though I've been using Ubuntu for only two years now compared to the eight years I used Windows, when a family member needs help on a Windows box ad it's probably something really simple, you forget and have the mentality of "ugh, it should just be working"?

Maybe Ubuntu is making us (more) lazy, but who am I to say - you can use it with whatever difficulty you wish... But still. Anything like that ever happen to you? Just forgetting the little common things in Windows?

Using a windows box tends to focus me, I find. I feel completely out of my element back in the explorer environment, and I usually just wish to accomplish the task and get off that god forsaken excuse of a computer as quick as possible. But I'm a lot more efficient on a Linux box, which may be the "laziness" you're talking about. It generally takes me less time to do things I need to do, so I have more time for play.

[SZF2001]

But maybe it's not laziness, maybe it's just how things should work. Unlike Windows, where you gotta do this to make that work to make thing B work and yadda yadda yadda....

[FuturePilot]

I was trying to switch to another desktop on Windows once.
I miss all the work spaces when I'm in Windows. I guess I always took them for granted. Until you're in Windows and have a lot of stuff open cluttering up the screen do you realize how useful they are.

[miseljt]

I'm yet another that has tried to switch to other desktops in Windows. Another funny thing i've noticed is I get 50kb/s or so faster downloads in Linux than Windows.

[3rdalbum]

Oh, and I've also tried to hit Alt-F2 and type the name of the program I want to run rather than navigate through the complicated Start menu.

[mysticrider92]

I couldn't find the Desktop folder on a Windows box the other day. Yeah, that is a pain. Why can't I get the recycle bin to hide without hiding everything else? Ctrl > Alt > left click doesn't zoom out to my desktop cube. :( Beryl makes me more productive by keeping my attention. :D

[marx2k]

Oh, and I've also tried to hit Alt-F2 and type the name of the program I want to run rather than navigate through the complicated Start menu.

I keep doing that and getting unwanted results. And then when I DO get to a DOS shell, I'm dissappointed :(