[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu - Wrong Direction?

[Liam Proven]

On 3 December 2011 15:02, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertising at gmx.com> wrote:
> On 03/12/11 13:59, Liam Proven wrote:
>>
>> [1] experts who use multiple OSs and multiple GUIs and are comfortable
>> in all of them.
>> [2] techies who only really know one UI and tend to be infuriated if it
>> changes
>> [3] non-techies, who don't really *know* /any/ UI and barely notice
>> changes
>> Unity is fine with groups 1&  3 but infuriates group 2.
>
> Nah.  Real techies only use the commandline - and they'll be fine with any
> Ubuntu.  Forget the gui and just do 'ctrl-alt-f2' (or f1) and do all your
> work there.

:¬D

IKWYM & I know people that work like that - but they tend to be the
old-time Unix hardcore, and as such, Ubuntu probably isn't the distro
for them. I reckon they're more likely to be on Debian or Slackware or
something. Possibly Arch. My impression is only the "ricers" still
bother with Gentoo, for all that it was the mad new l33t thing a few
years ago.

OTOH, even that type of user, who just run a bunch of xterms, get
annoyed when their window management system changes.

Me, I'm too lazy. I can drive a box like that, sure, but I actually
like it when I plug in a USB drive and *bing!* an icon just appears on
my desktop & I can double-click it and get at the contents. No mucking
around with making a mountpoint, inspecting the last few lines of the
system log to find the device name, identifying its filesystem and
then mounting it myself.

Secondly, despite 23y of practice, I don't actually like shell much.
The case-sensitivity and wildcard expansion annoys me. I understand
why it's there and the theory of how and why it works, but I prefer
the DOS command line. I know - heresy!

> But I do take your point.  I think obsessive-compulsive describes your group
> 2 best.

"You might very well think that. I couldn't possibly comment." ;¬)

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