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   From: bigjon    
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.ubuntu   
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   Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 15:40:26 GMT   
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   Sybren Stuvel wrote:   
      
   > 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   
      
   I agree, I now have a few good links to places where the operations are   
   explained.   
      
   .../I must learn to read before I type...    
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