One of the reasons why Windoze users are so hesitant about switching to Linux is that they fear having to use the command line. If Linux is to win users over, it'd have to go the GUI way. Let me tell U a story. More than ten years ago, I was using WordPerfect 5.0 and a uni mate was using MS Word. I thought that I was smarter as WordPerfect was much harder use, whereas MS Word was merely a matter of point-and-click. The fact is, my uni mate could churn out a piece of work in a fraction of the time that I could, even though she was what we called, a "computer illiterate". Personally, I think that doing things the GUI way is more efficient. There's this package that I use everyday that requires me to compile a source rpm everytime I upgrade the kernel, and anytime I need to use it, I have to key in a very long command. Now, wouldn't a GUI version be simpler and more efficient for the user? Jeff Vian wrote: >>That seems rather extreme reaction since: >>1, If it is reported to bugzilla it can be fixed. >>2, The 1.2.38-0 version works , >>3. Adding a group is so easy to do by command line processing. >> >> >I agree with all of these, but #3 is hard to do for those who are >intimidated or otherwise petrified by the thought of using a command >line interface. This may be because they don't like to, have never >needed to, or refuse to, but it still applies. > >So many users are limited to using gui tools and the often restricted >functionality of them that it scares me. > > >
