On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 15:56:41 +1200 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>(by way of Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote:
> 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. > for future reference use "finder" in macos x and search for 'terminal" - then click on the program and away u go. > -- > Sincerely etc., > Christopher Sawtell -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
