> That's a fine insight; I agree. Once one gets the feel of Unix systems, or > any general system for that matter, it doesn't take much for him to find ways > to do what's needed and fill in the gaps. I find Unix to be very intuitive.
We only feel *nix is 'intuitive' because we breath and live it, beginners would totaly disagree. However, what good *nix systems _are_ is logically and consistently put together (excepting the GUI) such that once you are over the (admittedly steep) hump, doing progressively more complex things does not involve relearning but rather building on top of what you already know.
The Windoze GUI is easier to get started with, offers a gentler learning curve and its interface is more consistent than *nixes'. However, when you start to want to do more complex things, it is ironically this friendliness that makes things more tedious.
GUIs certainly have their place and I totally appreciate the way they let you become productive with a particular tool in a much shorter time span, but I also always make it a point to familiarize myself with the text-based configuration and command line facilities associated with a particular tool and slowly wean myself away from the GUI - for one, it's much more of a pain to be constantly moving and closing dialog boxes than to watch text scroll by.
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