Re: webhttrack. start please

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:28:06PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote:


that is a good idea. however, i have another thread about making a
symlink, but all the responses involve real 1980s command solutions.
which, while fully capable of doing, i refuse to. when my friends see
this, they will laugh at a system which requires you to open a terminal
just to make a link (and rightly so). It takes longer to open a terminal
than it takes to right click

I'm sure the responses will be "this is linux, if you don't like it use
windows' and 'its free what do you expect' and 'linux is all about
terminal' ...these excuses just don't get old. It's 2007

Right clicking requires that I take my hands off the keyboard, find the
mouse, figure out where to point it, find the mouse button, rememer if
its one click or two...

Ctrl-Alt-F1 is almost instantaneous.

If you refuse to use a terminal at some point you will be forced to
reinstall from scratch when X or your WM/DTE dies. Sounds like windows.
Or maybe the *buntus (don't know, haven't use either). What will you do
when your graphics card fries and you have to hook up a serial console
or ssh in? I know: put in a new card, X won't work with the config for
the old card, so you'll have to reinstall... Hope you made a backup.

We will not say "its free what do you expect". First, you missed a
comma. Second, it goes agains the whole philosophy of the free/open
software movement.

Its too bad the debian-instller team made an installer that runs X from
the outset and gives a DTE straight off on the i386 and amd64 platforms.
The old bootfloppies from Woody provided a self-screening tool. Anyone
who got it installed, configured mail, and got online, knew enough not
to complain about a CLI and new that a mouse was best used for xeyes.

Doug.




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