Been following Solaris for the better part of two decades. Did casual stuff with it off and on, nothing hardcore. Which should answer the "how long have you been using computers".
"GUI is nice but not necessary for many computer tasks." Sure. It aint necassary for many tasks, but it certainly makes them more intuitive rather than hunting down some cryptic commands. Not everybody who decides to dabble with Solaris is a hardcore veteran of Solaris command line syntax. And normally I would not have an issue with this and would fully "expect" to spend days/weeks/months to learn that syntax (and in fact did, many years ago when I used to dabble with it), except that EVERY major operating system today, enterprise or not, has atleast basic shells and GUI utilities in them to get you started. Not so with Solaris, even today. "If you have been using only WindowZe for all your life you would never get it." The classic response of a non Windows user. You'll be surprised how adept Windows users can be even with command lines, if need be, but that's not the issue. I use multiple operating systems, not just Windows, I have Windows machines, Macs, Linux machines, and was hoping to add a Solaris server as well, but I guess the learning curve is pushing me away. Again, as I said, maybe it's just me, but to me it seems rather archaic, not to expand a product to have addiitonal capabilities, that make it more "modern" and inline with other operating systems. I LOVE ZFS, and would love to deploy it in my company, but the hiccups seem to be too many. As some have pointed out, Solaris is still "getting there" in terms of having "modern" things like a good installer and GUI elements, so maybe I should just wait. I do not agree that working through GUI is faster than command line." This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
