On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 15:58 +0800, "國產 Wei-Yee Chan (Made in Chinar)" wrote: > 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? > Point taken However I feel like I have to point out that there are drawbacks to a GUI interface, sometimes it can be ~~too~~ easy to do something unintended. I'll give you an example: Contrast MySQL, command line, with MSSQL, GUI I had a friend who decided to rename a table in MSSQL. So he right clicked on the table name, and went down to rename on the context menu. His fingers glitched, and he clicked on the item above rename which happened to be delete, table was gone. Had he not had a backup, it would have been ugly. Had he been working in MySQL from the command like, I do not think he would have made the same mistake. Its hard to type DROP TABLE, when you mean RENAME TABLE. Food for thought Micheal
