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   From: Topaz_Crow    
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
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   On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:44:37 +0100, Michel Firholz  wrote:   
   > On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 17:07:54 -0600, Topaz_Crow wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 10:46:36 +0100, Michel Firholz   
   >>  wrote:   
   >   
   >>> 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.   
   > I think you begin to understand what I mean. The console is powerful and   
   > maybe cool. It is not evil. But please, please don't preach that one   
   > *must* use it from the first day. Not in Ubuntu.   
   >   
      
   I've never preached that. But you seem to be preaching that they   
   *must* not use it from day one. Why not? They are learning Linux.   
      
   I don't think they should be spared   
   forays into the CLI just because they are new. This is part of   
   learning the system. When asking for help, they should take the help   
   given and not expect someone to teach them the GUI way just because   
   they are scared of the command line. They are asking for help from   
   volunteers who are nice enough to spend their spare time helping out.   
      
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