On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 01:29:11PM +0000, John Chambers wrote: > > This is much of why unix users haven't generally switched > over to full-time GUI use. Pretty pictures are fun and > flashy, but if you actually want to accomplish something > without constantly gritting your teeth about the idiocy of > the user interface, you need a command language that you > can type and that can remember things for you.
Well, yes. But it does depend what sort of things you're doing. I'm terrifyingly geeky, according to most of my friends (though not, of course, to a _real_ geek), but I'd _hate_ to, eg, edit .wav files via a cli. But _full-time_ GUI use, of course not. Stick with the best of both worlds. -- Richard Robinson "The whole plan hinged upon the natural curiosity of potatoes" - S. Lem To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
