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Wow... it'd have to be hard to go from a die-hard GUI to Linux.
Even though I've used Windows ever since we've had a Windows capable
computer, I *HATED* the drag 'n' drop interface to everything. If I had a
CL equivelant, I used it, because I feel that the keyboard is a faster
means of input then the mouse (then again, I also type at 90WPM w/ 95%
accuracy, so it's going to be faster).
I still to this day, when I'm working on someone else's system, use the
CL interface (especially for copy, ren, deltree, format, etc.). My
system? I only run Windows if I screw something up in Linux and I need to
reinstall.
That hasn't happened since I learned that you need /etc/rc.d. =)
- Mike
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On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Deirdre Saoirse wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Barry Selk wrote:
>
> > :One of my first questions was "What are the equivilants of dir, move,
> > :copy, etc.?", and soon after that, "Is there any documentation for this
> > :thing?" I was getting pretty frustrated with Linux at that point, only
> > :because I couldn't figure it out.
>
> Right...my point is that, being a Mac user, I had *no* command line
> equivalents for these at first. I couldn't think with the concepts (way
> back in the dark ages, I had been a command-line user, however it had so
> completely left my thought paradigms as to be a non-useful experience.
>
> > Yes, I found myself asking 'equivelance' questions at first. Then
> > started looking at questions as functions instead and the pieces started
> > to fall together. A whole new way of looking at things happened to me. I
> > read man pages, HOWTO's, found out what grep and gawk could do and
> > played with them. "Wow, this is amazing", I thought.
>
> For me, it was realizing I could publish stuff from my desk directly to a
> web site. Boom! No ftp, it was just *there.*
>
> _Deirdre * http://disclaimer.deirdre.org * http://www.deirdre.net
> "I would rather choose to have my leg bitten off than to buy NT"
> Rob Narberes, Information Systems Manager, DNA Plant Technologies Corp
> as quoted in (!) Computerworld
>
>
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