Wah, wahing

[Dick Dowdell]

When one of my grandchildren ceases to behave rationally, we just totally
ignore him.

On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 2:56 PM, Smoot Carl-Mitchell <smoot at tic.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 2008-08-02 at 13:38 -0400, Michael "TheZorch" Haney wrote:
> > Ok, I don't check my email in a while and this shit happens.  What
> > started all of this anyway?  Can't find the originating message.
> >
> > It does irk me when people at Digg.com bitch & moan about the Linux
> > terminal or compiling programs to install them.  I grew up using the
> > command line starting with the Apple IIe all the way up to Unix and
> > final version of straight MS/PC-DOS before Win95 made ever young
> > computer users since then a spoiled brat.  Yes, the GUI has made people
> > spoiled, and I admit I'm a bit spoiled by it too but I don't bitch &
> > moan when I need to open a terminal window or compile a piece of source
> > code.  Yes, you can do just about everything from the GUI in Windows,
>
> Amen, brother!  I have always thought that GUIs were to sell software to
> managers. :-)  In all seriousness, a good GUI desktop is useful and
> makes the system more accessible to novice users. However, the
> underlying CLI is very powerful and it is useful to know it is there and
> how it can be used. I also do not think you need to have a system to do
> everything in the GUI.  For little used functionality it is acceptable
> to drop to the CLI.  I have been such a long time Unix/Linux user and
> administrator that doing this is second nature to me.  I can see how it
> can be daunting to those not familiar with the Unix computing paradigm
> and we should make every effort to make the system as simple as possible
> to us for the most common tasks.
>
> I think the desktop managers (Gnome and KDE) have come a long way in
> usability and functionality over many years of development and I applaud
> the developers for their diligence.  We do need to realize that
> GNU/Linux is not going to satisfy all users, but I think it is important
> that there be a choice in desktop computing.  I am happy to see Apple
> doing well with OSX and that desktop use of GNU/Linux is growing.
> Having a monoculture on the desktop is a bad thing for computing as a
> whole.
>
>
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Dick Dowdell
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