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   Re: My ubuntu experience   
   20 Jan 07 03:21:12   
   
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   From: Michel Firholz    
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   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:21:12 +0100   
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   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!    
      
   >>> 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.    
   No, definitely not. They have been asking to solve a problem.   
      
   > 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.    
   Please take a look at http://help.ubuntu.com   
   although they are explaining the basics (and the console ;-)) from the   
   beginning, they give both ways in their examples. That is well understood   
   didactics.   
      
      
   > And this junk about the CLI being hard is just that,   
   > junk.    
   Who pretended that the CLI is hard? Me? I just told you that there is   
   other ways.    
      
   Michel   
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