Travis Bemann wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 03:52:23PM -0800, Ian Clarke wrote:
> > On Sun, Dec 31, 2000 at 06:39:34PM -0500, tartlhuQ wrote:
> > > Really though, Mutt rocks. It does beat the shit out of all other mail
> > > progs. Only thing I really hate about it is it only supports PGP/MIME.
> >
> > As soon as Evolution supports GPG I will consider switching to it. Mutt
> > is good, but, call me new-fasioned, but I prefer GUI mail clients.
>
> GUIs suck. Other than for playing games and looking at pr0n, I prefer
> the console.
Half the things I do with computers, I do hardly much more than once.
With a GUI, it's just a few clicks with few text if any to read, for any more
complex command line tool, it's tons of manual to read before anything of value
can be reached. If you have buttons to click and menue selections to choose
from, you don't have a chance to make inputs the program doesn't understand
(dir nonexistingdirectory /&nonexistantfeatureswitch , if you know what I
mean). Saves so much time to the always less experienced 99.999% and growing of
all computer users who can't spend as much time on learning as students can.
I'm just during reading the Wget manual, and have more forgotten than I
remember at not even half way through (and English magically turns out much
slower to read than my native language for me, even though I otherwise feel
wuite fluent at it, and don't need to look any additional words up).
Wget does anything that GetRight can do, and then tons more (and is totally
free plus sourcecode minus ad banners and embedded spyware). I know I'm gonna
love it more than my mom as soon as I get to handle what I need from it, but
GetRight basically worked after three minutes, and that only because I wasted
the extra time to read through its configuration menues first, and a similar
GUI would be a damn good thing to do to Wget, for my taste (not that I would
want to take its command line usability away either).
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