On Tue, Aug 30, 2016 at 02:32:52PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Tue, 30 Aug 2016 11:36:49 +0300, Janne Jokitalo wrote: > >Yes, that's moving to more sophisticated usage. And quite frankly, if > >we're talking about technologically inexperienced people, wouldn't > >they use a GUI (Software Center?) anyway? > > Not in regards to the wiki, help pages or when solving issues by the > mailing list. Command line allows to copy and paste and it allows > assuming that the defaults were not that likely edited as by a GUI > front-end. And if the Ubuntu defaults should be very important, or if > changing defaults should be very important, it could be done > temporarily by command line options, too.
Yes, you're absolutely correct in that sense. Giving examples is much easier with CLI commands. > >One really good plus for apt's scoreboard is the progress bar at the > >bottom of the terminal screen. I'm sure there are others, but that's > >the thing that jumps at your eyes. > > It's just not an apt-get default, but also available for apt-get, run > it with > > -o Dpkg::Progress-Fancy="1" <snip> This is good info, and frankly, it was just me being lazy not to look these up in the first place. :) Thanks, Ralf! Best regards, Jaska -- astraljava @ freenode
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