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   From: Topaz_Crow    
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
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   On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 13:48:11 +0100, Michel Firholz    
   wrote:   
   > Topaz_Crow wrote:   
   >> You will   
   >> never be able to harness the full power available on the CLI with GUI   
   >> apps.   
   >>   
   > "nobody would ever need more than 640KBytes Ram"   
   > was someone of the rookies asking  for help willing to "harness the full    
   > power of Linux", or were them just asking to solve a small problem?   
      
   Not a good analogy You can do much more with much less effort on the   
   command line. In this case the GUI would be the 640K. :)   
      
   Well, maybe this small problem is much easier to fix by giving someone   
   a command line way of doing it than telling them how to wade through   
   GUI menus. This is exactly the case much of the time.    
      
   >   
   >> 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. It only helps. It does not harm. Not   
   using the CLI in Linux is like, I don't know, not using the start   
   menu in Windows. It's a tool that makes life easier if someone learns   
   to use it. And it's not that hard if you get over the phobia.   
      
   >> So giving a little help with command line actions is a little   
   >> introduction that will not hurt at all but may help a lot.   
   >>   
   > sure, if they have been asking for!   
      
   They are asking to learn Linux. They are going to have to get over the   
   fact that it's not Windows and learn to use Linux of which a big part   
   of is the CLI. And this junk about the CLI being hard is just that,   
   junk. It's not hard if one makes the effort and it will teach them much   
   more about what the GUI is doing than only using the GUI.   
      
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