CLI+books/GUI+videos mindsets (was: Mac OS X v. Linux)

Eric Dunbar eric.dunbar at gmail.com
Sun Jul 3 09:22:30 CDT 2005


> > > *user friendly = usable to people without extensive experience
> > > with the CLUI or manuals...
> >
> > It's "GUI user friendly" or "total newbie friendly", please don't
> > deprive us CLI users of being such. :)
> 
> As stated before and elsewhere -- the CLUI and GUI co-exist
> peacefully. Improvements to the GUI do not harm the GUI, well, since
> the GUI is stuck at 1975! Keeping the GUI down because of CLUI demands

CLUI is stuck at 1975

> would be a bad idea (not saying it's happening) because the GUI opens
> computers up to people as TOOLs, CLUIs restrict the use of computers
> to the techno-geek elite (perhaps that's why some are fearful of an
> improving GUI... they're clinging to the last vestiges of a CLUI in
> hopes that they can extort some more $$$s out of users in support fees
> ;-).



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