I was a mac user for my entire high school career (to my eternal shame) and I used the Terminal loads, once I learned what it could do. There are really cool hacks you can do with the Mac binaries...try running the screensaver engine on your desktop--possibly the coolest thing ever.
That being said, no one else I know who uses Mac EVER opens the Terminal. It comes with nano and emacs installed...that's all I ever used for text editors! I even printed text files from ftp, using HP printers (possibly the second coolest thing ever), and compiled my personal projects in perl and python. They all come installed! Yeah, everyone else was fanboying over Photobooth and iChat. It was dumb. On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Chris Louden <[email protected]> wrote: > I didn't mean to imply any disagreement with what Randall said. I was > off on my own thoughts. Evidently not worded very well. > > On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Mark Traceur <[email protected]> wrote: >> Chris, I think the point presented was that the average user would not >> be able to change from the Windows way of thinking about files, > > Thats sad. Adaption to change big in my book. > >> executables, and drives to the Linux way of doing the same thing. C:\ >> drive means nothing to Linux users, just like /dev/sda1 means nothing >> to Windows users. "run the .exe file" means nothing to Linux users, >> just like "run sudo make install" means nothing to Windows users. We >> have some differences to make up for before we can switch anyone over >> in substantial numbers. > > This is my big complaint about MS. The interface. From the GUI to CLI. > > CLI is for power-users in general. We all know MAC/OSX users... how > many ever launch terminal? > >> >> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 1:30 PM, Chris Louden <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Randall Whitman <[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>>>> The average user doesn't understand linux on the desktop and probably >>>>>> never >>>>>> will. >>>>> Does the average user understand "NT kernel" on the desktop? >>>> >>>> Never mind the NT kernel, the average user doesnt understand much of >>>> MS-Windows overall. >>> >>> The average user doesn't, but do they need too? How many of us >>> understand car engines, refrigerators, etc. In some aspect of our >>> lives there are things we use and the only requirement for us is that >>> they work. Business is the same way... It just needs to work. Granted >>> I believe it would work better without MS business does work with it. >>> Until the companies that make apps for Windows move away from it or at >>> least to a web/cloud based were stuck with MS. >>> >>> >>>> Linkname: Malware worldwide grows 15 percent in September | Security - >>>> CNET >>>> URL: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10363373-83.html >>>> Note: 59% >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> LinuxUsers mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> LinuxUsers mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> LinuxUsers mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers >> > _______________________________________________ > LinuxUsers mailing list > [email protected] > http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers > _______________________________________________ LinuxUsers mailing list [email protected] http://socallinux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linuxusers
