> > On Sat, 13 Oct 2007, al davis wrote:
> > > The biggest dumbing down is by accepting the MS-windoze
> > > way of doing things, which you can do on any system.
> > >  Typing a command is completely foreign, even if the
> > > command is only two letters.

> On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 12:31 -0400, Anthony J Bybell wrote:
> > This might put stuff into perspective: I've run into people
> > who've insisted I bring up the GUI to configure something
> > because they were completely convinced the config info
> > exists solely in the checkbox itself.

On Sunday 14 October 2007, Peter Clifton wrote:
> Worryingly, for some apps its probably true.

It is known to be true for almost all MS apps.

For some apps that have good text interfaces, GUIs generate 
messed up versions of those files that work but are human 
hostile, and next time you run the GUI you clobber your 
changes.

More worryingly, most Linux distributions do this to some extent 
with their installers, and it seems to be getting worse.  I 
think this is one reason why some people here use non-Linux 
systems like Net-BSD.


_______________________________________________
geda-dev mailing list
[email protected]
http://www.seul.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/geda-dev

Reply via email to