> >
> > 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?
>
I still believe that if you provide an alias right off of the bat for
something like mkdir and somebody gets used to using md they are never
even going to wonder if md is the correct command. They get a job or work
on somebody else's machine that doesn't have the alias and they freak out
because they can't get md to work. Is this the right way to do things?
Also, I see more newbies, like myself, make their first post to the list
because they want to know how to get rid of FVWM95 because they don't want
something that emulates Win95 and they want to try something new.
Greg
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