Colin Walters wrote:
Completely, totally disagree. Every time a non-developer/non-sysadmin
has to use the terminal for something is a bug.
If that's the case, you've got a lot of bugs to fix.
I've been burnt so many times by bugs in Red Hat's GUI stuff that I
just don't have time to waste with it. I think of the guy (in a message
last week on this list) who had NetworkManager blow out his resolv.conf
settings... Every time I hit "Ok" on one of those screens, I'm afraid
that it's going to lead to a disaster that's "Not Ok".
All the time I see friends struggling to figure out how to do
something in the GUI, and I have them open up a command line and get
the job quickly, and correctly the first time, even coaching them over
the phone -- /etc/sysconfig is a Red Hat introduction that I like a
great deal -- a little bit of time spent learning how to navigate there
means you can configure RH machines easily, X Windows or not.
Maybe it's better now than it used to be, but I'm set in my ways.
If RH manages to ship GUI tools that work 99.99% of the time rather than
80% of the time, maybe a new generation of people will start using them.
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