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   99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid to All   
   Re: My ubuntu experience   
   21 Jan 07 10:19:58   
   
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   From: SINNER <99nesorjd@gates_of_hell.invalid>   
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
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   * HVS wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   > On 20 Jan 2007, Topaz_Crow wrote   
      
   >> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:21:12 +0100, Michel Firholz   
   >>  wrote:    
   >>> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:34:29 -0600, Topaz_Crow wrote:   
      
   >>>>>> It does not hurt to introduce newbies to a little CLI action   
   >>>>>> from time to time.   
      
   >>>>> how do you know, what is supposed to hurt them?   
      
      
   >>>> Because the CLI is a good thing.    
   >>> Do you feel well as a CLIslamist?   
   >>> ;-)   
   >>> Open your mind, there are other ways!    
      
   >> I think that I have said many times over that I know there are   
   >> other ways. Use the tool that works the best. But why should one   
   >> not be taught all of the tools so they have the choice?   
      
   > Because not everybody wishes to know all of the tools, since all of    
   > that knowledge isn't necessary to run the OS.   
      
   > Presumably you feel that all drivers should be forced to learn to    
   > drive a manual transmission, whether or not they ever intend to drive    
   > manual car.    
      
   They should. Intent is not always the driving factor. Sometimes choice   
   is left out of the equation.   
      
   > To some of us, that sounds like fundamentalist overkill    
   > for those who just want to drive their automatic to the shops and    
   > back.   
      
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