Wheelerof4te wrote:^That Troll guy had some good points, even then.
Who can be bothered sitting at a terminal interface digging away at config files every time they want to do something, seriously.. its 2011.
oh, really?
i bet they already said that in 2004, nay, 1999, and every year since.
and will continue to do so until the end of time.
only teenagers talk like that, for whom any timespan that reaches beyond either edge of their puberty is incomprehensible.
it's also an incorrect and deliberately polarizing statement.
incorrect because editing config files is often a very effective way to ..., erm, configure things, which usually has the effect that you do it
once, and no more after that.
polarizing because one can very well also use a
graphical editor to
manually edit config files. it's not "All CLI" or "All GUI".
GUI's were created for user convenience. What would you rather do? Type tar xvf archive.tar /home/user/Desktop/ or *click click click*?
I know what I'd rather do. I have better things to do with my time than sitting at a 1970's terminal interface.
This. After 7 years, a little has changed, and we still have that "do-it-the-hard-way" mindset.[/quote]
wrong, wrong, wrong.
this has nothing to do with masochism, or being backward.
i have a gui filemanager, and use it a lot, but after i half managed tab completion and a few very basic shell features, i more and more often open the terminal instead because it's just faster for a particular task.
more precise.
ad-hoc scripting, not yet-another-batch-gui-utility-plugin-installing.