Posted by: Anonymous Coward
on January 05, 2004 06:10 PM
Personally, I love the command line because I'm a net admin, and I frequently have to login to machines remotely. Anything that a Linux/Unix box can do can be executed from the command line, which is a far cry from any other OS.
That said, I also love the GUI. All the programming and web design I do is generally from within a GUI because it's easier. Sure I could fire up a terminal with vi (which I'll do if I need to fix a quick bug), but it doesn't have the functionality of a dedicated IDE (like the code completion features of Zend Studio for example).
I use both GNOME and KDE, and even though they're both very high quality environments, I know that in time they will only get better.
What initially attracted me to Linux (and what keeps me here) is the freedom to use my system as it best suits me. Even though I would have a hard time without a command line, I know that the other 99% of users out there don't want anything to do with it, and I'm fine with that.
What it comes down to is that I agree: Linux shouldn't _need_ a command line to run if it's going to be a main-stream OS. Whether that's a KDE/GNOME issue or a Fedora/SuSE/Mandrake/etc issue is irrelevant to the average Joe user, but it _is_ something that the development community should be accutely aware of.
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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on January 05, 2004 06:10 PMPersonally, I love the command line because I'm a net admin, and I frequently have to login to machines remotely. Anything that a Linux/Unix box can do can be executed from the command line, which is a far cry from any other OS.
That said, I also love the GUI. All the programming and web design I do is generally from within a GUI because it's easier. Sure I could fire up a terminal with vi (which I'll do if I need to fix a quick bug), but it doesn't have the functionality of a dedicated IDE (like the code completion features of Zend Studio for example).
I use both GNOME and KDE, and even though they're both very high quality environments, I know that in time they will only get better.
What initially attracted me to Linux (and what keeps me here) is the freedom to use my system as it best suits me. Even though I would have a hard time without a command line, I know that the other 99% of users out there don't want anything to do with it, and I'm fine with that.
What it comes down to is that I agree: Linux shouldn't _need_ a command line to run if it's going to be a main-stream OS. Whether that's a KDE/GNOME issue or a Fedora/SuSE/Mandrake/etc issue is irrelevant to the average Joe user, but it _is_ something that the development community should be accutely aware of.
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