Oliver Lange wrote:
If somebody is singing oda's about GUI and clicking, I like to ask him to solve this problem: Give me the first 2000 most frequently used words in english newspapers!
Okay okay, you're right, no-one will ever add a menu entry in a GUI-driven tool named 'Give me the first <n> most frequently used words in <language> newspapers'.
For such tasks we have got the shell, perl, python, php, C/C++, ...
But: this example is a little unfair. Tell me: how many people would click on such a button (or menu entry) during all-day desktop sessions ?
IMHO, typical user action might be kinda more basic, like searching for installed software, or searching any non-binary file for strings, and the like.
Believe it or not: i couldn't find a really good file manager for Linux. I tried many, like Krusader, gnome-commander, gentoo, worker, nautilus, x-files... the smartest thing i could find is still the good old Midnight Commander, but that thing also lacks of lotsa features, not to mention that it's shell-based.. unfortunately, WindowsCommander (now named TotalCommander), started under wine, won't do good because it doesn't know about Linux file properties (permissions etc.).
Without good power tools, the shell is, unfortunately, the only good answer when it comes to all-day system & file management.
Ever used Nautilus or Windows Explorer ? OMG... i feel sorry for people who don't know better tools.. :)
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