A person who only knows Windows will have some kind of cultural adjustment to
make.
A person who knew Unix will feel right at home.
Our desktops are highly configurable and replaceable. They can be what we want
them to be.
I downloaded Puppy 215CE and booted it. A friend saw the desktop and marveled at
how beautiful and striking it was.
Try it for the price of a CD
Keyboard shortcuts:
To kill X server: leftAlt+leftCtrl+Backspace
The 'three finger salute' for rebooting: leftAlt+leftCtrl+Delete
If you mean what I think you mean, you will damage things. Not hardware, ratherAnd to hit the kill switch to shut off the power supply.
software.
You need to be able to shut it off with proper commands, or at least get it to
the BIOS reboot level before using the Off Button.
Until then, you have a problem which needs to remain open and debugged.
Bruce
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