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   From: "Michel Firholz"    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 12:18:43 +0100   
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   Toby Newman wrote:   
   > On 2007-01-19, Michel Firholz  wrote:   
   >> Mark Warner wrote:   
   >> 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...   
   >   
   none them being common tasks for an Ubuntu rookie!   
      
   > 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.   
   >   
   Haven't we been speaking about newbies and not about experts swapping    
   distributions as handkerchiefs?   
   It is highly unplausible that Ubuntu will change newly introduced GUI    
   features.   
      
   > I prefer to use the CLI when remotely adminning my PCs because it uses   
   > less bandwidth and is therefore much faster.   
   ....not really a common tasks for an Ubuntu rookie, isn't it?   
   ....not really a common problem either, for someone accustomated to download    
   movies at 16MBps?   
      
   >   
   > GUI is good. But don't dismiss CLI.   
   >   
   You might use it, so am I, but I wouldn't preach it to beginners untill it    
   is really necessary.   
   You should also admit that sometimes two clicks are faster than typing in a    
   20 characters long command.   
   If you are on Ubuntu and have discovered the right click command "edit as a    
   root" you won't want to miss it again!   
      
      
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