I got to use Irix 2.6 x I liked the gui and the
commandline options, you could click on an
icon and get full commandline access,
I gotta have my cake, eat it, and
drink my milk too.
On Tue, 05 Dec 2000, Mark Johnson wrote:
> I told myself I would stop contributing to this thread, but I
> feel compelled to say one more thing. I don't think the complaint
> is with Linux the OS. Everyone I think is agreed that the OS
> is a great achievement and that you must get proper hardware
> to run it on.
>
> The desktop is another issue that is really not even bound to
> the OS. I think most folks comming from MAC and Windows to Linux
> have been "spoiled" in a way by the desktop offered by those
> systems. Even the BeOS has very good (better) desktop. The reason
> is because MAC, Windows, and BeOS folks really care about the
> desktop in general, the Linux folk don't and so it was/is never
> seriously persued.
>
> I'm getting the impression that some feel having a GUI means the
> abondonment of the CLI. Probably a reaction to the susidence
> of the DOS prompt in Windows. But just think how attractive
> Linux would be keeping its powerful CLI and supplying a massively
> intuitive, progressive GUI. But the obstinance toward GUIs is
> very surprising to me - I don't get it.
>
> The thing is, within reason, the system should never let the user
> fail, because the user is always going to be the weekeast link.
> This is Human Factors 101.
>
> I have yet to think of Linux as an innovative, progressive OS.
> It's still to me at its heart really just a unix clone, and
> the desktop is becoming just a (bad) windows clone. Having said
> that I still love linux.
