> > I'm afraid I need to disagree with this. I picked up linux mostly because
> > I wanted to have some understanding of unix, but it does have potential to
> > be a desktop os. Think about the ease of use complaints, the original
> > poster complained about not knowing how to even change directories. Would
> > it be so difficult to add alias dir="ls -F --color=tty" to the bash
> > defaults in the distro? I don't think so, and setting up some aliases for
> > ease of use was among the first things I did when I got going. Little
> > things like this go a long way. Yeah, it might be a little more complex,
>
> Adding aliases to the dist, IMO, would be very bad. People would use dir,
> or md, or whatever, without ever knowing the corresponding Linux commands.
> What would motivate people to learn the OS this way?
>
I use aliases for a lot of that stuff, but still need to some things that
I don't know, but am able to look in man pages, etc. Besides, does it
really matter that I can ls or dir? Different means to the same end in
this case is hardly faulty. And, if you don't like them odds are you know
how to change them. Also, whats more important, having a good, stable
system that you can use comfortably or just sticking with the lower
quality stuff because someone EXPECTS you to learn a myriad of new stuff?
There's a lot of talk on this list about using FVWM95 as a default window
manager because it's familiar, but what about command line familiarity? Is
there no value to that?
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