Re: RTFM

From: Kevin Wu Won (s4097941_at_uq.student)
Date: 04/16/05 

Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 19:18:12 +1000

>> Windows users often believe that GUI is the natural way to
>> use a computer. Seeing as this is 2005, not 1960.
>
> Now that's an incredibly stupid remark. Being a mindless
> consumer nitwit that can only move a mouse and click on
> icons is not superior, it is INFERIOR.

And that's incredibly arrogant of you to put yourself above others whose
hobbies/professions do not involve *nix.

> The commandline is what makes computers work. When you
> click on an icon to run an application, you are just
> pressing ENTER on a command that has been typed out
> by someone else beforehand.

I disagree with that, but it's irrelevant anyway.

> [windoze users] don't set computing standards except for
> mindless consumers and office drones.

OK, so are you saying we should ignore all the office drones? We should
destroy every computer in the world with a GUI-centric OS installed, and
kill the productivity of 95% of computer-reliant offices in the world?

> What Windows has done to the computer is a CRIME. They have
> turned the world's greatest communication tool into a
> TV set.

So we should essentially rewind back 15 years, remove all graphical
interfaces to computers, and reduce the impact that computers have on the
world a hundred times? Should we bar everyone who doesn't bother to learn
a hundred commands from using computers? Should we cripple the multimedia
capabilities of today's generation of computers because it's too easy?

What you are saying is completely ridiculous.

> The windoze commandline, "DOS" or the Run command, is pathetic
> compared to bash or one of the other POSIX shells.

Maybe because it's intended to be unneccessary in today's world. You'll
notice that a lot of consumer Linux distros are working hard to eliminate
need for the command line too.

> Which is, again, an attempt to divorce the user from any real
> knowledge of how computers work

What do you, as such a superior programmer, think about abstraction in
programming?

Again, the usual line: I don't like Windows, I'm not trolling, and I love
my Linux. But I can't stand extremists who ignore real-world
practicalities simply to stir up long posts like this one. 

-- 
Kevin Wu Won                   exclipy                       #40979410
                              @gmail.com

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