On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:23, Yuri de Groot wrote: > Hi Kevin, > > What is your computing background? > My father (61) finds linux difficult because he has moved from > text-based DOS environment to a GUI KDE Linux environment, > and all this new-fangled point and click stuff bothers him!
He doesn't have to use all the inconvenient GUI stuff if he doesn't want to. That's the nice thing about Linux. > Some long time unix users will see the irony in this :-) I (similarly 61) find linux easy simply _because_ I have a command line. One click, or keystroke, and it pops up and I can do whatever I want. The KDE ALT-F2 key combination is a godsend to save time hunting through the the twisty maze of menus. I was asked recently by a teacher "How do I view this pdf file"? to which I replied "Open the command line and type acroread". ( Said teacher was sitting beside a unix box hidden underneath MacOS X & I took a punt that acroread would be installed ) The teacher looked at be as if I was on a sojourn from another world & hadn't a clue what I was talking about in spite of holding a senior position in a school which passes itself off as being 'technologically orientented'. I didn't press the point. I have since discovered that the terminal is buried about 5 clicks down in the default distribution menu structure. So I suppose that the fact that said teacher was completely unaware of the CLI is not totally unreasonable. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
