Re: Is SuSe ready for me yet?


Mads Skjern wrote:
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know code wrote:
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TiToF wrote:
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Some will be along in a second to go on about the marvels of the
command line, how windows user are just too stupid to use LInux
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And here they are:

marvels of the commmand line?!
please understand, there are "marvels" the command line can do...
things youre mouse cannot...
even in M$ Wind...
Difference being that in Linux you HAVE TO use it sooner or later but
not in windoze, which is large reason why the vast majority who even
considered linux don't use it or gave up. I doubt there is anyone who
installed Linux and tried to use it who hasn't at some point HAD TO
open a console and copy gobbledigook into it.
Fine if it's your hobby or job but it isn't for most.
At work I'm forced to use Windoze. Regularly, and I mean at least
daily, I drop into a 'DOS' command prompt to do things because I can
find no easy way in the GUI to do it! A simple command with a few
switches yields a result that would have taken a lot longer to do with
the GUI, if at all! Maybe this is a result of having used computers
from the days of the DOS prompt, but your claim of *having* to drop to a
command prompt is not exclusive to linux if you want to do things quickly!
The vast majority of computer users NEVER use a command console,
wouldn't know how to, don't want to use one, don't have the time or
inclination to learn the commands, do not want to cut and paste
commands (providing they spent the time finding some). The Dos days are
over, face it.
Really, so then tell me why I still *have* to use the command prompt in
XP just so I can do things more efficiently!!! Regularly in work I'll
pull up a 'DOS' prompt and type in a command and the kid next to me will
go "wow, how did you do that" when I get the result before he's even had
time to find and launch the window that will enable him to do the same
thing! I *always* have a 'DOS' prompt open on my work XP desktop, just
like I *always* have a command prompt open on my home linux desktop!
Life's too short not to use the command prompt!

Life's too short to learn Dos and Linux command languages, quite aside
from that most people simply don't have the capacity for it. The idea
is to innovate/modify the software so everyone is "as fast as you"
instead of spending man-millennia teaching millions (billions?) to use
MsDos and Unix/Linux.
I'm sure Bill loves ya though....

"Life's too short to learn Dos and Linux command languages, quite aside
from that most people simply don't have the capacity for it."

I see... People are just to dumb to read and write?

??? Non-sequitur.

People working with
complicated machinery or high-responsibility jobs (crane operators, bus
drivers, airline pilots, ships officers, accountants, doctors) can't
learn anything logic? Or maybe just except you?

Just for a vague statistical example: Only about 2% of Linux user are
female, yet they make up about 30% of all computer users, so only about
0.05% of all female computer users actually use Linux. Now you can
probably rattle of some sociological reasons for it but ease of use
will be at the top.
Impress women, make Linux usable to them.


Instead of spending man-milleniums fixing defect software, why not use
something that just works?

Because Macs are quite expensive.

And I don't think of anything out of Redmond
in that context.

Who's Redmond?

.

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