[HLUG] Command Line Witchcraft? -- was: Re: Ubuntu Manual Learning event Monday and Tuesday!

[dicegeorge at hotmail dot com]

because if you type one letter wrong who knows what disaster might happen,
whereas if you're following a well written and reputable GUI
it should be clear which click deletes etcera.

If ubuntu is to defeat windows for normal users
then please dont ask them/us to do command line stuff,
or learn a new language of 'mounting'.

everything should be clickable
in my opinion.

it was bad enough changng from cpm to msdos,
and my brain was younger then!

pip pip!

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From: "Richard Smedley" <smedley358 at btinternet.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 8:20 PM
To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group." <herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>
Subject: [HLUG] Command Line Witchcraft? -- was: Re: Ubuntu Manual Learning 
event Monday and Tuesday!

> dicegeorge at hotmail dot com wrote:
>> which i blindly pasted into terminal
>> as it didnt seem to be in the software centre
>> but it hasnt appeared in the applications/internet menu
>> so is it for linux geeks only?
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> Hello George,
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> Interesting you should look at it this way. I'm in
> the middle of writing introductory command-line tutorials
> for LinuxUser & Developer magazine, and would like to
> here more about what makes the command line forbidding to
> GUI users.
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> Cheers,
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>  - Richard
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