There is a more important reason for a text-mode config tool: When things really start to stink, text-mode is the way to go. What if X freezes? What if you have problems with your graphics card?
I have a Windows NT system with lots of important data on it. I see no way to recover it, because I can't login for some reason or another. If I were able to boot in text-mode, I could save the data, check what's wrong, configure the system to boot in a bare bone mode, whatever. Configuration sometimes has to be done on the lowest common denominator - text mode. Of course, this is no argument against a all flashy funky GNOME/KDE/Whatever tool. I just want to be able to choose.
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There is a more important reason for a text-mode config tool: When things really start to stink, text-mode is the way to go. What if X freezes? What if you have problems with your graphics card?
I have a Windows NT system with lots of important data on it. I see no way to recover it, because I can't login for some reason or another. If I were able to boot in text-mode, I could save the data, check what's wrong, configure the system to boot in a bare bone mode, whatever. Configuration sometimes has to be done on the lowest common denominator - text mode. Of course, this is no argument against a all flashy funky GNOME/KDE/Whatever tool. I just want to be able to choose.