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   From: Sybren Stuvel    
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
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   bigjon enlightened us with:   
   > Surely that defeats the object - I can copy and paste, a monkey can   
   > probably copy and paste, I am trying to learn what it _means_   
      
   And you can't do that without proper examples, can you?   
      
   I wrote my story just to demonstrate that   
      
       A) A commandline interface is not a bad thing.   
       B) Even newbies can be very happy with it.   
      
   > My initial problem withh Linux (ubuntu) is learning what the   
   > commands mean, and the consequences - just typing SUDO and a few   
   > commands is all very well, but I need to know what is actually   
   > happening.   
      
   Which is no different with a GUI. You need to know what's actually   
   happening.   
      
   > I find it frustrating that, although all the help and tips are   
   > welcome (very welcome ATM, don't think I'm moaning about that!),   
   > nobody tells me what does what.   
      
   Then I suggest you start reading manual pages, since they describe   
   pretty well what's going on.   
      
   > In a gui environment I have text to explain what I am about to do...   
      
   Not by definition. There are a lot of bad GUIs out there, and there   
   are a lot of programs with bad documentation, GUI or otherwise. On the   
   other hand, it is really easy to read some manual pages and figure out   
   what a certain command is for. Especially in combination with the   
   aforementioned examples, you can learn how to use the command line   
   interface pretty quickly.   
      
   Sybren   
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