I personally prefer ncurses applications. A good example is timidity which I use quite often. If I use the GTK interface some midis will not even start. If I use the ncurses interface it starts up no problem. What I find surprising is that the ncurses interface has more features than the GTK interface.
Anyway, it is not a question of easy or difficult. Users who have never seen a screen with 3 or four colors and a few lines of text might get a psychological feeling of helplessness. My first linux distribution was mklinux and later LinuxPPC. It was quite a change from a Apple LC or a Performa 6360. It was scary to have to type cd or ls; and what was all that output of ls -l. Yet, it always gave me a funny feeling in my stomach every time I learned a new command or a new option. I can understand why people would feel intimidated by the slackware installer or even the ncurses RedHat installer. Thanks to that Performa 6360, the oldest PPC machine where linuxPPC runs and the BIT machine at LSU ( retired I think ), I was able to bypass Microsoft World entirely without hesitation. take care, Alvaro Zuniga On Mon, 2004-07-19 at 15:03, Shannon Roddy wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 10:40:03 -0500, Alvaro Zuniga > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Does Slackware 10 > > still uses ncurses? I know 9 still did. > > Yes, it still uses an ncurses base install, however I find it pretty > easy to use. I managed when I knew nothing about Linux and only knew > win 3.1, so it can't be that bad. The Slack installer has not really > changed since '95 that I know of. > > Shannon > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
