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   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   From: HVS    
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   On 21 Jan 2007, SINNER wrote   
      
   > * 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.   
   >    
   > Until the day you need it.   
      
   [shrug] Some people never do need it.   
      
   I figure forcing someone to learn something because *I* feel that    
   they *ought* to learn it, just in case, is a type of moralising    
   interference in somebody else's way of doing things.   
      
      
   --    
   Cheers,   
   Harvey   
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