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The Command Line - Best Newbie Interface?
An anonymous reader writes "This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces. It comes from practical experience I have of teaching computing to complete beginners or newbies as computer power-users often term them."
Can't blame this one on Gatesy. Three guys are at fault here; two named Steve, the other named Xerox.
They invented the GUI but they didn't demonize the CLI the same way Gatesy did. And Apple now has a Unix shell in OS X, so they have redeemed themselves.
I wonder why my post was modded down though. Must be a lot of humorless Microsoft apologists in the audience today.
"Backups are for wimps. Real men upload their data to an FTP site and have everyone else mirror it." -- Linus Torvalds
Why do we need such commands in Linux? I don't think there is any reason to dumb it down to Windows-XP-like-standrads. It's not that hard to go online and look stuff up, or at the very least find someone who can reccomend the "man" command for you...
i was a newbie less than a year ago, and i figured out everything i could have ever wanted to know about linux (and used every major distribution) in that time. We don't need people on the Linux side if they are too lazy to do some searching.