On 04/30/2010 12:19 AM, Xavier Chantry wrote:
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan<lists@itech7.com> wrote:
I know this is a silly reason, but this is the general trend I've observed dealing with people in real life and on the internet. They fear from using Linux because they think it has no GUI or it is bad.
Well that's not completely wrong. Tell me how many people install/use/maintain an Arch system without ever touching the command line ?
The kde+qt vs gnome+gtk separation doesn't help either for having a coherent and consistent GUI experience.
Even Ubuntu documentation contains some occasional commands lines, e.g. random example : https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/keeping-safe/C/firewall.html#id2774297 A lot of ubuntu guide/tutorial often relies on the command line as well.
However all the big distrib have indeed made a lot of effort to provide more and more GUI for every aspect of the system, and it improved a lot in the last years. I don't know if a stupid compiz effect is a good illustration of that progress, but well.
Anyway while it's true you can do a lot via a GUI on ubuntu,fedora,suse,etc nowadays, what would Linux be without its great and powerful CLI ? I spend a lot of times every day using a linux terminal, and I just love it. I miss it a lot every time I am forced to use windows.
I am so used to the command line that even in virus infected Windows systems when I have to copy files from a pen drive to the disk because the explorer won't copy them I have the habit of typing 'ls' at cmd.exe prompt ! -- Nilesh Govindarajan Site & Server Administrator www.itech7.com मेरा भारत महान ! मम भारत: महत्तम भवतु !