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Oh yeah... That's one of the wonderful things that I *LOVE* in Linux. I
can chose 30,000 ways to do one type of task.
Minus writing reports, anyway. I don't (yet) know any of the
text-formatting languages, so I'm using Word for Windows for the moment.
If I need to get to a page that is graphically intensive, and I need to
see the graphics, I use Communicator. If I'm creating graphics for my
website, I use Communicator.
I can't think of anything else (at the moment) that I do in X. I do AMAP
in the CL interface ;).
- Mike
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On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, David Johnson wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Akintayo Holder wrote:
> >Michael Trausch wrote:
> >>
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> >> Yeah, I'm now to the point of looking at it with a different point of
> >> view, too. It's kind of dangerous, in a way, because I've actually been
> >> using Linux for so long now, that I go back to DOS/Windows, and I type
> >> UNIX commands... lol... and of course, they don't work. ;)
> >>
> >> Anyway... I'm very happy with Linux. I'm not a game player, so that's an
> >> advantage. I do Internet things the most, and I love the text mode
> >> interface (reminds me of the good 'ol days of the 8088, when you had to
> >> type everything into the archaic DOS 2.11 shell, and you ran off of a
> >> 5.25" floppy, although I run from a 3.5gb hard disk now.
> >
> >Ahh the old days, before the descent of the cursed WIMP
> >Linux brings back the command line but with multitasking and stability.
> >Call me weird but my favourite Linux features are quite simple; command
> >line completion, virtual consoles, file permissions and and REAL command
> >line. Any mistakes made are my fault not the pointing device. Simple,
> >clean, powerful, so many of them do not know what they are missing. The
> >command line is not to be feared but rather to be embraced, when was the
> >last time a text display gave serious problems.
> >
> >> And if you ask why I use it now, the answer you'll hear from me is this:
> >> Stability. Reliability. Comfortability..
> >>
> >> - Mike
> >>
> >
>
> Interesting points. Personally, I use a combination of CL and WIMP. I
> think we have three basic computer-usage philosophies out there:
>
> 1) Command line only. Even if you have to use X for netscape or
> something, you always have an xterm on the screen). The adherents of
> this philosophy can be amongst the most fanatical. They use "ex". They
> use lynx.
>
> 2) Point-and-click and Drag-and-drop only. This is the Mac world, and
> mostly the Windows world too. (As a friend pointed out upon seeing my
> KDE screen, "Egad, hasn't anyone discovered a better metaphor than a
> trashcan yet?") They use WordPerfect. They use Netscape Communicator.
>
> 3) A combination of the two. There are many levels under this, from
> using the CL to get to WIMP (ala DOS), to using WIMP to get to the CL
> (ala ten xterms tiled up on the screen). They think LyX is cool. They
> use Netscape Navigator, but not necessarily Netscape Mail or News.
>
> Neither of these philosophies is wrong. What is wrong is the insistance
> that Linux be just one of them. For the first time, we have an OS that
> can do either one of the three just as well as the others, with just as
> much power.
>
> I can use Linux the way **I** want to, regardless of what Bill Gates or
> Richard Stallman think.
>
> ---
> David Johnson
>
>
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