Stages of a Dos-Lover's Linux Journey
1. Ooh! There's an operating system I haven't tried, and it has a screen reader!
2. Yay! I chose one. Let's download it.
3. Hurray! It's installed. Wait. It's not talking. What's wrong? let's try another. Okay, that one talks.
4. Why isn't it seeing my shared folder from VMware? Never mind, I'll just ask Perplexity.
5. Great. It gave me some commands, let's try them.
6. What the hell is this! Why are there no drive letters? What is that command? Why is it a mile long? Why must I always enter sudo for everything?
7. Okay. Several hours have passed. This is maybe my third or fourth attempt in the last two months or so. Even Perplexity admits that it was giving me the wrong commands! sigh Let's try this one.
8. Yay! It finally sees my folders! At last, I can learn the operating system!
9. What the bloody hell! It sees my text file as an executable? How the hell can a .txt file be an executable? How do I fix this to make all .txt files be seen as... normal text files!
10. Back to the commandline,again, because people can't figure out how to do this graphically! Why do Linux commands give me a headache when I can work with DOS all day? Why don't these make any sense?
11. Even Noel Coward would be blushing at my hypothetical vocabulary right now, so I won't type the rest. I'm going back to XP, 7, and DOS! On second thought, I'm going to make a cup of tea, watch an operetta, and forget that computers exist at all!

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