On 8/17/07, Gora Mohanty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 18:05 +0530, Anupam Jain wrote: > [...] > > Recommending command line options to do something as basic as > downloading a > > file from the net sends out really bad signals to Linux newbies.. > [...] > > Speak for yourself, dude. The so-called newbies that I have explained > command-line ways to do things with have been quite happy with the > results, and I see no reason to push the GUI over the command-line, > or vice-versa. Each has its advantages in different areas, but > downloading files is *not* one in which there is a clear gain with > one or the other. In my opinion, of course.
I don't know about you but as a Linux guy in a very Microsoft dominated workplace, I have met tons of newbies who'd petrify at the slightest mention of a command line interface.. It's about the mindset.. There's this guy here in my office who refuses to use apt-get to install software on his machine because he'll have to "open a terminal and type".. He'd much prefer manually downloading and installing self contained executables like windows.. Now I *could* try to hammer into his head why package management is a much better option than installers but instead I just introduced him to synaptic.. I could teach him VIM but I'd rather tell him to use gedit.. I could ask him to download using wget but I'd rather say "drag drop the link into the kget icon".. It's the only way we can all get along amicably.. -- Anupam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - September 28-29, 2007 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org/
