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The Command Line - Best Newbie Interface?

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the now-bloody-likely dept.

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."

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  1. Re:Ah the command line... by Xpilot · · Score: 2, Offtopic

    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.

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