I just removed some terminal info from the unofficial docs

Mauricio Tavares raubvogel at gmail.com
Mon Apr 29 21:25:02 UTC 2013


On Mon, Apr 29, 2013 at 5:18 PM, Gunnar Hjalmarsson <gunnarhj at ubuntu.com> wrote:
> On 2013-04-29 22:52, Jorge O. Castro wrote:
>> I don't want to offend the people who put so much work into this
>> section but IMO it's not appropriate to start new users out on this
>> foot.
>
> Hi Jorge!
>
> If you ask an Ubuntu usage question in a forum somewhere, how likely is
> it that the answer does *not* involve the CLI somehow?
>
> Personally I think that a CLI introduction is appropriate at the
> community maintained part of the docs. We should not pretend that Ubuntu
> is something it isn't (at least not yet).
>
      IMHO, it is much easier to help new users remotely with ubuntu
when you can give them cli commands and have them send you back the
output. I helped many friends that way. But then again I do not think
the terminal is something dirty that should be kept hidden at all
costs.

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