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   From: Toby Newman    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:17:02 +0000   
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   On 2007-01-19, Michel Firholz  wrote:   
   > 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!   
      
   If I learn a CLI command it is often useful in lots of different places.   
   e.g. shell access on my hosted website, managing my running Kubuntu box,   
   troubleshooting my non-running DSL box... If I learn a GUI trick, it is   
   often changed in the next revision of that GUI and must be re-learnt.   
   It is also only usable in that GUI rather than across many distros.   
      
   I prefer to use the CLI when remotely adminning my PCs because it uses   
   less bandwidth and is therefore much faster.   
      
   GUI is good. But don't dismiss CLI.   
      
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