On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 14:47:17 +1200, you wrote: >On Sat, 27 Mar 2004 12:51, InfoHelp wrote: >> The split-format meetings GUI/CLI around a tea-break catered best to all >> parties, it seemed. >> A big ask, but all seemed satisfied with those. >> > > >Actually I don't think that the gui/cli spit is the same as the old >hand/newbie split. > >the cli is not hard. text based configuration files are often very well >documented with a ratio of comments to lines that actually do the work at >90-95%. IE for every line that does something there are often 9-9.5 lines of >comments. > >working out how to configure the same service via a gui can be harder. > >sometimes it is the other way round, the guis are well documented and the cli >is sparse at best. > >But what we shouldn't assume is that a gui method is easier for newbies and >that the cli is only for the experienced or the geeks. > >Someon famously once said that X is just a method for squeezing more consoles >on the screen via xterm :-) > > >june is fine for me at this stage BTW.
The way I look at is that if you really want to know how Linux works and to use it to your advantage, then you should do everything once the hard way. Then you actually get an idea of what's happening. Once you're comfortable with this, then use all of the shortcuts that are available to you. There's only a small number of hours in the day, after all (: $0.02 Steve
