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   From: "Mike Easter"    
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   Subject: Re: Editing menu.lst   
   Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:00:53 -0800   
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   X-Trace: DXC=1MOJd=L4Mike Easter wrote:   
   >   
   >>   
   >> The commandline approach is leading User to be working on the wrong   
   >> file.  If ace or User were navigating around to find the menu.lst   
   >> file, that wouldn't be happening.   
   >   
   > The problem comes when you have a problem and your GUI won't load.   
   > If you are not comfortable with the command line, you may very well   
   > be stuck with a complete re-install to fix something that is often   
   > pretty simple.   
   >   
   > For instance, if something screws up X, you can simply run the X   
   > Configurator from a command line.  If you are a GUI only guy, you are   
   > stuck, and you rebuild.  My system is back up in 5 minutes, exactly as   
   > before.  Yours is down for a couple of hours, and then you get to   
   > reinstall all of your apps and restore your data...   
   >   
   > For most people, the GUI is fine.  But for someone wanting to learn   
   > Linux, the command line is a must.   
      
   That's true.  Maybe there needs to be a tutorial designed something like   
   a 'typing tutor'.  The tutor takes the student thru' some simple   
   commands, familiarizing with the useful ones first and working up thru'   
   lessons until the previous 'skittish' GUIer who would 'freezeup' at the   
   sight of a commandline now leaps forward from one useful command to   
   another, like 1100000 demonstrated earlier.   
      
   Some GUIers who go traipsing thru' a Windows registry with an alacrity   
   which might intimidate some linux commandliners but who cower at the   
   sight of the commandline would now have their horizons broadened.   
      
   Just like the typing tutor can convert a 20 year hunt-and-peck/er into a   
   smooth touchtypist, maybe the commandline tutor can help the gui/er into   
   becoming a commandliner.   
      
   --    
   Mike Easter   
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