Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 05, 2004 05:46 PM
It is marvellous to see someone at 'high levels' say at last what we mere GUI users have been saying for some time. We really DONT want to use the shell and DOS-like commands: if we did, we'd run DOS 6.2.
I am a Linux devotee (SuSE9), I use Win98SE only if I absolutely have to do so (and believe me it is now getting rarer) and I use Linux because it is stable, secure and mostly does exactly what I want. The desktop is excellent, I use point and click for virtually everything I do and I go to command line level perhaps once in 6-9 months. I simply do not need to do so with the KDE desktop.
Finally, I already note that a command line devotee has said that the command line is better. Allow me to say loudly that it definitely is NOT better if your main use of the computer is graphics/text mixtures using a wordprocessor.Why in God's name should I use command line or vi or even Emacs if I have OpenOffice 1.1. I do not have time to waste and I can do everything I want via a GUI.
I have no problem with those who like "Linux purism" reverting to the "UNIX Style command line", developers and other specialist users need it.....and good on 'em...but don't try to push it on others who don't want a bar of it. Well done Robin !!!!!!!
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Thankyou Robin for an honest summation
Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 05, 2004 05:46 PMI am a Linux devotee (SuSE9), I use Win98SE only if I absolutely have to do so (and believe me it is now getting rarer) and I use Linux because it is stable, secure and mostly does exactly what I want. The desktop is excellent, I use point and click for virtually everything I do and I go to command line level perhaps once in 6-9 months. I simply do not need to do so with the KDE desktop.
Finally, I already note that a command line devotee has said that the command line is better. Allow me to say loudly that it definitely is NOT better if your main use of the computer is graphics/text mixtures using a wordprocessor.Why in God's name should I use command line or vi or even Emacs if I have OpenOffice 1.1. I do not have time to waste and I can do everything I want via a GUI.
I have no problem with those who like "Linux purism" reverting to the "UNIX Style command line", developers and other specialist users need it.....and good on 'em...but don't try to push it on others who don't want a bar of it. Well done Robin !!!!!!!
Tony Young
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