Why Different Commands ?

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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It would appear that on Jun 15, Chanchao did say:

> The ones you mention (sudo, apt-get, chmod and mkdir) can also be
> handled in the graphical environment just fine, so chances are that
> terminal commands will be used less and less.  Still the tendency on
> this forum is to answer a question 'the terminal command way'.  Partly
> this is because the most knowledgeable people seem to prefer the
> terminal, partly it's because it's a lot easier/shorter to explain
> something in email using terminal commands, which are after all also
> text.   Suppose I had to explain how to change file permissions.. Just
> writing 'chmod 755' is easier then writing the whole story of
> right-clicking a folder, selecting 'properties', then go to the
> 'permissions' tab, then check the box for.... etc.
> 
> However personally I wish people would explain the graphical way
> whenever possible. I always try to explain things using the graphical
> user interface whenever possible, even when it's more work to type! (And
> to read.. :)

That would no doubt help those who want to avoid using cli to get some
things done. But aside from generally taking longer to express how to do
something than simply quoting a command to type into a terminal or run
prompt to do the same thing, Always trying to explain graphically might
tend to reduce the chances of new users from learning that it's also
sometime easier to type a short command string, than to click ones way
through the gui to do somethings.

Now what I'd like to see would be that right after a well explained gui
sequence on how to do something, such as you suggest, that the knowledge
giver would also when ever possible follow it with something like:

"
Or just enter the command:
chmod 755 filename
"

This way both gui & cli methods can be compared by the new user, who can
then make his/her own mind up on which interface to use for what tasks.



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