Kapil Aggarwal wrote: > 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. "Cryptic" is perception. You gotta get used it. Same as GUI. You gotta get used to which menu item a particular task is hidden and painfully go through mouse clicks to actually get a task done.
Not everybody who decides to dabble with Solaris is a hardcore veteran of Solaris command line syntax. Again perception. If you do not have patience then don't do it but refrain from generalizing just because you can't do it. 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), There is no GUI that is obviously intuitive. There are people make living out of teaching all kinds of GUI tools. 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 have seen enough Windows administrators to pass on such as comment. 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. You need to learn Unix before Solaris. If you can work on Linux then i wonder what stops you from working on Solaris. > > 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. Perhaps i need a GUI tool for movie player or Music player (BTW, i use mplayer without GUI). After reading your response i am not sure if you are honest when you said that you have twenty years of experience in computers. If you were honest about your experience then you are not constructive in criticizing OpenSolaris as it uses GNOME and many other tools are being built as the opensolaris project is relatively new. The beauty of many Solaris/Linux distros is that they offer you the powerful command line and also the GUI. > > 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] _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
