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[Knapp]

>> did you use the command fgl_glxgears?
>>
>
> No. But I just tried it and got this silly rotating box with gears
> twirling around. Looks like it might be intended to be a screen saver of
> some sort.

That is good that you got that. It is a test. You see it uses the
graphics in a way that it would NOT work if your system was broken. So
by saying you got it means your system passed that test.

>> Did you use the hardware drivers manager?
>>
>
> No. I don't even know what "the hardware drivers manager" is.

Me ether. I will have to google it.

>
> I'm a command line dummy. I need the book, "CLI For Dummies".

Have you seen all the posts here about rute book? You can load it with
adept and read it.
I like adept too but sometimes apt-get is much faster. CLI if I know
exactly what I want to install and gui if I am browsing or searching.

>Some say
> that makes me a very poor Linux user. But looking at it the other way
> around. Not being conversant in CLI I tend to look for GUI methods of
> doing things. Many times I see someone giving long lists of CLI commands
> to do something I can do in just a few seconds with my mouse in the GUI.

Ya, sometimes it is like that.  I often find it easier to move files
around using konquerer and CLI

> One of the biggest complaints I get whenever talking to someone about
> using Linux is, "you have to be a programmer to use it" or "everything
> has to be done in a text screen" [ CLI ]. I usually hand them my
> computer and tell them to look at it. Most times they are impressed at
> what it looks like and how it works.

This is mostly holdover image from 10 years back. I remember my first
try at Linux. It was like trying to install a raw Gentoo distro
without manuals.

The image will takes some time to catch up, especially when it is
still sometimes true.

I compare the GUI to the CLI by saying it is like a car with auto
transmission VS one that is manual. Auto will always get you there but
with manual you can go fast when you want and you can conserve gas
when you want. Of course computers on both ends are a whole lot more
complex.

Learning the CLI will give you much more power than just GUI but at
least now we can mostly avoid it, if we are happy with the
statusquo...

-- 
Douglas E Knapp

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