One of the things I hear most often as an objection to Linux can be boiled down to “fear of the command line.”
Even though modern Linux distros like Ubuntu only occasionally require a trip to the bash prompt, I hear this over and over again as a reason to use Windows or (more often, these days) Mac OS X.
Imagine my amusement this morning when I had to boot to an open firmware prompt on an iBook this morning, in order to eject a CD that wouldn’t eject using the normal methods. It wasn’t a big deal — 60 seconds of googling turned up the necessary key sequence (Command-Option while holding “o” and “f” — almost like using Emacs!) and then typing “eject cd” — not hard, not scary, worked like a charm. But, also, proof that using a Mac isn’t a guarantee you won’t need to type commands occasionally.
I’ll leave the snarky comments about Apple’s slot-loading optical media drives to another post…
