The answer depends upon why do you want to know. What difference will that make? Also, what do you mean when you say "popular"? Does it indicate What most people prefer? or does it indicate what most people actually do? Is popularity based on absolute or relative numbers of people who are using? Depends a lot on how you operationalize the concept of popularity.
Even now, I am given to believe new users of Linux are somewhat innovators or early adopters. I do not know if it has reached that critical mass of user base to call them early majority, if we apply the diffusion of innovation (see for example, http://www.ciadvertising.org/studies/student/98_fall/theory/hornor/paper1.html) in the context of operating system usage. I suspect not. Once you have at least early adopters or laggards joining in, a better picture may emerge. Typically, if you are dealing with innovators or early adopters, you may expect most people favor command lines as opposed to GUIs, perhaps it gives them better controls? Something like asking whether most people prefer using stick shift gears or automatic transmissions for their cars. But that does not tell us anything about the computer interaction behavior of people at large. What do you think accounts for the popularity of Windows, or for that matter, popularity of KDE, Gnome, or ICEWM? /Arin --- Ashwin Mansinghka <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear All, > > Just wanted to know what is more popular among the > users of Linux - > > A. command prompt or a GUI interface for > configuring, tweaking, > troubleshooting etc. > > B. Is it true that new users after a certain time > period, feel more > comfortable to change over to the command prompt ? > > with Regards, > ASHWIN > > > -- > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with the body > "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. > FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the body "unsubscribe ilug-cal" and an empty subject line. FAQ: http://www.ilug-cal.org/node.php?id=3
