| I recently got a book from Kindle though I haven't really worked with it much yet. It is The linux command line a complete introduction by William Shotts jr. It's also free on the Internet as I recall. Just today Amazon sent me a recommendation for another book, something about going deep with the MacOS Unix. Here it is: | Learning Unix for OS X: Going Deep With the Terminal and Shell by Dave Taylor |
Back when I was learning linux I seem to remember a book I had from what was then RFB called Running Linux and I think I may even have read a Linux for Dummies book. Other than that I learned a lot from very patient people on email lists - grin! Also from a few people who let me pester them offlist. This was back in 1999 and following when I first started learning linux as I recall.
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Hi! Is there a good tutorial or kind of mastering the command line book? Of course i could read the linux and unix administrators handbook. But that book is a huge amount of text to go through. I really would be able to use the command line more but i really don’t know where to start. Copying and moving files is not a problem. /A On 18 Jul 2016, at 19:13, Cheryl Homiak <cah4110@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think this is really a pretty complex issue. It really depends to some extent on how people started out. Those of us who started out with DOS and linux and didn't quickly go the Windows route I believe often prefer or at least like the command line. Those who never did DOS or linux or went straight from DOS to Windows probably do prefer the gui. For Mac users who didn't come from a linux/Unix background, because voiceover isn't as friendly in the terminal, the gui appears usually to be the preference. I still use the command-line every single day and I use brltty on my Mac in terminal and only use Apple braille for the gui. It makes me sad to hear people say, as several did in a class i took recently, that they hate using or are uncomfortable using the terminal; the training guide I have for certification as a support professional repeatedly admits there are things that can be done in terminal that can't be done easily or can't be done at all from the gui yet it appears that Apple requires less and less knowledge of command-line usage and understanding of the Unix underpinnings than used to be required. I very much enjoy the gui and wouldn't want to go back to command-line only but neither do I want to lose my command-line skills. I think the fact that I really have very little skill in the gui in linux has to do mostly with the fact that I began using the Mac when Voiceover was introduced. I still use linux though right at this moment I don't have a linux installation, but I've never really gone to the effort of learning the gui in linux because I mostly meet my needs as far as gui with Mac OS. Probably I should work on mastering the gui in linux also, but I honestly don't know whether I will ever do that, at least as long as I can use Mac OS and i-devices and even a Kindle fire.
On Jul 18, 2016, at 11:53 AM, John J. Boyer <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
My experience is that most blind people like a GUI with a screen reader
better than the command line. Those who have teouble with GUIs, like me,
seem to be decidedly in the minority.
John
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 12:29:39AM +0200, Anders Holmberg wrote:
Hi!
Thats intresting.
I am the total oposit guy.
I had and have no problems learning gui’s but for me the command line is to hard.
Although i began with a debian command line system 16 years ago and gave that up for windows a couple of years.
Now i am back to vinux and a mac with osx.
I whish i was patient enough to learn command line.
Maybe i am to dum or maybe i am lazy.
/A
On 17 Jul 2016, at 22:57, Sam Hartman <hartmans@xxxxxxx> wrote:
"John" == John J Boyer <john.boyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
John> I';ve been trying to get a feel for GUIs for years. Sighted
John> colleagues are no help. They only tell me how they use the
John> mouse. They won't use a keyboard shourcut even when it is much
John> simpler. For example, they will scroll down a long document
John> instead of using ctrl+f to find something. i've tried
John> unsuccessfully tpo find a Jaws trainer. After I reinstalled
John> Windows 7 recently Jaws wouldn't install. I'm now using NVDA
John> and I don't think I'll go back to Jaws.
This is really interesting, because now I'm realizing that I don't know
how to teach someone GUIs on modern equipment at all.
I don't know if I can find a solution, but I'll see if I can toss the
question around.
I hear your frustration completely about people who know one way of
doing something and who aren't even great at articulating that.
I started to say "well, understanding the mouse at least well enough to
get your screen reader to click places and stuff is worth knowing.
That's true of course, although I just realized that most of the screen
readers I use these days actually wouldn't let me click usefully on a
scroll bar if I wanted to.
So, even if you wanted to be incredibly slow, you can't get work done
just understanding the mouse operations.
Thanks for helping me understand an interesting challenge; I'll let you
know if I come up with anything that might help at all.
--Sam
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