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   From: "Michel Firholz"    
   Newsgroups: alt.comp.freeware,alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 09:22:22 +0100   
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   Mark Warner wrote:   
   > Michel Firholz wrote:   
   >>   
   >> One of the problem of that LINUX community, is that we will always   
   >> have hundreds of nice helping guys telling you how to do things over   
   >> command interface, wereas meanwhile you could do it just with two   
   >> clicks right from the GUI...   
   >> ;-)   
   >   
   > There is that. Most people tend to teach the same way *they* were   
   > taught, and many of the GUI tools that are now commonplace weren't   
   > around even a year or two ago.   
   >   
   interesting! does that mean that those people were not willing to "learn the    
   GUI?"   
   -)   
      
   > The point remains that there *will* come a time when the only way to   
   > accomplish a certain task will be through the command line. When that   
   > time comes, it will be easier for the new user if he has a little bit   
   > of experience with the CLI, no matter how limited.   
   >   
   OK.   
   Yet.   
   But that does not mean, that we should preach the command line, whereas    
   there is an much easier graphical alternative available!   
      
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