Quote Originally Posted by honeybee
Point is when you learn to operate Windows, you essentially learn the GUI. You don't learn the SDK. When you learn to operate Linux/DOS for that matter, you are essentially learning the bare-bones, raw commands. So I would say it's two different things learning Windows and learning Linux w/out the UI. Now if you were to compare Windows with another UI-based OS such as the Mac, that would be interesting.

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Yes, correct, you don't actually learn Windows properly unless you program in it.