On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 8:03 PM, Nilesh Govindarajan <lists@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I know this is a silly reason, but this is the general trend I've observed > dealing with people in real life and on the internet. They fear from using > Linux because they think it has no GUI or it is bad. > Well that's not completely wrong. Tell me how many people install/use/maintain an Arch system without ever touching the command line ? The kde+qt vs gnome+gtk separation doesn't help either for having a coherent and consistent GUI experience. Even Ubuntu documentation contains some occasional commands lines, e.g. random example : https://help.ubuntu.com/9.10/keeping-safe/C/firewall.html#id2774297 A lot of ubuntu guide/tutorial often relies on the command line as well. However all the big distrib have indeed made a lot of effort to provide more and more GUI for every aspect of the system, and it improved a lot in the last years. I don't know if a stupid compiz effect is a good illustration of that progress, but well. Anyway while it's true you can do a lot via a GUI on ubuntu,fedora,suse,etc nowadays, what would Linux be without its great and powerful CLI ? I spend a lot of times every day using a linux terminal, and I just love it. I miss it a lot every time I am forced to use windows.
