On Wednesday 25 October 2006 20:35, Paul Davis wrote: > my family is well trained <snip> > from the command line, its so easy, > from a GUI, it seems more work than it should be. Sure, if you dictate the use of only certain file formats, and ensure that your handful of users are "well trained", you can claim that anything's easier than the alternative. But then you haven't made the computer easier, just trained people to use something that they would previously have considered hard. Computers don't usually come with free training, much less training that includes concepts like ".doc is an unstable, in-progress format". Nonetheless, I'm still optimistic that the day when users have the option to be productive under Linux without a command line is not that far off. Rob
