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   From: Topaz_Crow    
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
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   On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:46:36 +0100, Michel Firholz    
   wrote:   
   > Topaz_Crow wrote:   
   >> It will also, maybe, give the new user an idea of the power of the   
   >> command line. IMHO, people are missing much of the power of Linux   
   >> if they avoid the console. It's not archaic, it's a very power part   
   >> of the system that they should not be scared of.   
   >   
   > By the way: did you notice in  the right-click menu for text files icons the    
   > option: "edit as root".   
   > Brilliant, isn't it?   
      
   That's nice. If all you want to do is edit a file as root. It is nice   
   that Ubuntu has this feature. Very handy. But how about a right   
   click menu to rename thousands of text files by stripping the spaces   
   and special characters from the current filename, replacing the spaces   
   with underscores, prepending "log", appending a number starting with   
   0000001 and capitalizing the extension?   
      
   No, you are right, what kind of newbie is going to want to do that?   
   But eventually newbies are going to be non-newbies and will want to   
   start doing things the easy way. Introducing them to the command line   
   will teach them that it's not something to be avoided but something   
   that is very cool.   
      
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