Comments on: Wrong all these years http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2005/09/02/wrongthese scratched tallies on the prison wall Wed, 07 Jan 2009 20:58:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: anon http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2005/09/02/wrongthese/comment-page-1#comment-40 anon Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/adpb/2005/09/02/wrongThese/#comment-40 <p>To be fair, it was an article aimed at “high-level users“. I suspect that by the final release, there’ll be plenty of <span class="caps">GUI </span> frontends for adding user accounts. Still, a command prompt in Windows with commands other than “cd” and “format” is still a Big Step Forward.</p> To be fair, it was an article aimed at “high-level users“. I suspect that by the final release, there’ll be plenty of GUI frontends for adding user accounts. Still, a command prompt in Windows with commands other than “cd” and “format” is still a Big Step Forward.

]]> By: anon http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2005/09/02/wrongthese/comment-page-1#comment-41 anon Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/adpb/2005/09/02/wrongThese/#comment-41 <p>To be fair, it was an article aimed at “high-level users“. I suspect that by the final release, there’ll be plenty of <span class="caps">GUI </span> frontends for adding user accounts. Still, a command prompt in Windows with commands other than “cd” and “format” is still a Big Step Forward.</p> To be fair, it was an article aimed at “high-level users“. I suspect that by the final release, there’ll be plenty of GUI frontends for adding user accounts. Still, a command prompt in Windows with commands other than “cd” and “format” is still a Big Step Forward.

]]> By: DG http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2005/09/02/wrongthese/comment-page-1#comment-42 DG Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/adpb/2005/09/02/wrongThese/#comment-42 <p>I think it depends what sort of user you are – I’m quite happy (and prefer) using the command line for nearly everything. To me a desktop environment is a window manager which arranges the terminals/web browsers for me.</p> <p>From looking at some more of that article, I see that it’s almost the worst situation – you can do some stuff in the shell, and other stuff (next step(s)) requires the <span class="caps">GUI</span>. That’s the worst combination (in terms of mouse movement/speed of operation etc).</p> <p>Long live the shell!</p> <p>DG</p> I think it depends what sort of user you are – I’m quite happy (and prefer) using the command line for nearly everything. To me a desktop environment is a window manager which arranges the terminals/web browsers for me.

From looking at some more of that article, I see that it’s almost the worst situation – you can do some stuff in the shell, and other stuff (next step(s)) requires the GUI. That’s the worst combination (in terms of mouse movement/speed of operation etc).

Long live the shell!

DG

]]> By: mrben http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2005/09/02/wrongthese/comment-page-1#comment-43 mrben Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/adpb/2005/09/02/wrongThese/#comment-43 <p>The command line is the ultimate killer feature of Linux. The ability to be able to do almost anything you want via the command line is priceless. The Windows shell has always been massively half-arsed, and I am expecting the Vista shell to be, frankly, shite compared to bash.</p> <p>Linux will continue to improve it’s graphical front-ends, and Windows will continue to fail to have a command line that is anything short of woeful.</p> The command line is the ultimate killer feature of Linux. The ability to be able to do almost anything you want via the command line is priceless. The Windows shell has always been massively half-arsed, and I am expecting the Vista shell to be, frankly, shite compared to bash.

Linux will continue to improve it’s graphical front-ends, and Windows will continue to fail to have a command line that is anything short of woeful.

]]> By: Saint Aardvark http://www.kryogenix.org/days/2005/09/02/wrongthese/comment-page-1#comment-44 Saint Aardvark Thu, 01 Jan 1970 01:00:00 +0000 http://www.kryogenix.org/adpb/2005/09/02/wrongThese/#comment-44 <p>I’m with DG and mrben on this: the amazing power of the shell is one of The Great Things™ about Unix, and the best thing a window manager can do for me is manage my xterms and a browser, and then get the hell out of my way. The best way to make a Windows box useful is to install some random free Unix; the second best way is to install Cygwin.</p> I’m with DG and mrben on this: the amazing power of the shell is one of The Great Things™ about Unix, and the best thing a window manager can do for me is manage my xterms and a browser, and then get the hell out of my way. The best way to make a Windows box useful is to install some random free Unix; the second best way is to install Cygwin.

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