Hi, Well, to be fair Linux really is the power users os. Linux has ben steadily getting more user friendly since it does have a graphical desktop environment very close to Windows in similarity. However, any Linux user worth his or her sault sooner or later should know some basic shell commands for one reason or another. Now, if you do have the root account active in Ubuntu 8.04 you could select the Cynaptics package manager from the admin pull down menu and browse for the Sun-java6-jre in the tree view, check it,and click install. This is generally what my sighted Linux counter parts do. So technically speaking one would not necessarily have to use the commandline based commands I provided earlier. It is just faster in my opinion to run the applications from the command line in a terminal window than to logout of my user acount, login as root, fire up Cynaptics, and search the package listings for the Sun Java 6 runtime environment, etc. As far as preference goes I think there hasn't been a piece of software made that was right for everyone. Some people prefer Jaws, and others don't. Some prefer Windows, and some don't. Some like Linux and others don't. Some live by Macs, and some Windows users can't stand them. So it is all about options and choices, and not about who is right, who is wrong, or which is necessarily the superior software.
piotru[ wrote: > well I'm not a programer, but It indeed sounds complex! > If I was up to switching to linux then I would faster pay for a mac and have > no woories that I don't know those looooooooong terminal commands. > Linux looses in this that you need to know these commands. > I was listening to a podcast on bct about it and I had to switch it off, > other wise I would end up sleeping. > those commands have no meanings, It would be easier if those people would > make the commands more close to real words like get this, delete this etc. > Sorry if i'm wrong. but I won't even try linux. > --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
