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   From: John Fitzsimons    
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   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 10:14:18 +1100   
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   On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:57:36 -0500, noshellswill   
    wrote:   
      
   >On Fri, 19 Jan 2007 22:33:31 -0600, Topaz_Crow wrote:   
      
   >> On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:43:08 +1100, John Fitzsimons  wrote:   
      
   < snip >   
      
   >>> What Unix users tend to ignore is that to use Unix you need to have    
   >>> a very good memory. If you don't remember EXACTLY what the syntax    
   >>> for a command is then it doesn't get executed.   
      
   >>> With windows going through menus, and clicking, requires little/no   
   >>> memory at all.   
       
   >> Well, if one does not have the memory capacity to remember a few   
   >> commands,   
      
   Few commands ? A typical misrepresentation that one commonly finds   
   with Linux users.    
      
   > I guess there is no hope and there will continue to be   
   >> people asking for help in these groups. Soon, memory capacity will   
   >> degrade to the point that people refuse to learn how to work a mouse.   
      
   >   
      
   >Downplay CLI complexity?? Sorry TC, the numbers do NOT support your   
   >case. Truth is, The command line is HUGELY more complex than a GUI.    
      
   >Take this crude example:    
      
   >    1) A certain GUI command requires the choice between two ( 2 ) buttons:   
      
   >    2) For the typed keyboard version of that same command    
   >    requiring ---say--- ten ( 10 ) characters, the number of   
   >     possible typed combinations is ~ 100 ^ 10 .     
      
   >Assuming LOG complexity, the usr faces ~ 70x as difficult a task in   
   >the CLI as opposed to the GUI. Now, if the CLI is the ONLY way to give   
   >that command there is no issue. But, if the GUI version is available then   
   >it's affectation to choose otherwise.   
      
   >nss   
   >*******    
      
   Very well put.    :-)   
      
   Clearly, even if there were only one Linux command to learn, clicking   
   a single button is far easier than making sure one remembers the   
   correct version of a possible 70+ syntax combinations.   
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