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   From: "Michel Firholz"    
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:16:14 +0100   
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   Sybren Stuvel wrote:   
      
   > I wrote my story just to demonstrate that   
   >   
   >    A) A commandline interface is not a bad thing.   
   Full ack!   
   >    B) Even newbies can be very happy with it.   
   Full ack as well. They *can* they *must* not.   
      
   >> 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.   
   >   
   Do do you really think that Apple were where they are now, if they have had    
   this philosophy?   
   Maybe you can remember a time, where OS/2 was extremely superior to Windows    
   and had an extremely powerful command line language...   
      
   >> 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.   
   Hopefully in Ubuntu, they did an extremely good job making things easy and    
   intuitive.   
      
   > On the   
   > other hand, it is really easy to read some manual pages and figure out   
   > what a certain command is for.   
   I prefer spending that time otherwise. ;-)   
   If God concepted sex that way, Adam were still try to use Alpha version 0,01    
   and the Apple would still hang on the tree...   
   -)   
      
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