Date: Wed, 1 Dec 1999 19:22:43 +0000 (GMT) From: Jonathon McKitrick <jcm@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> To: Szilveszter Adam <sziszi@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Some Observations Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.02A.9912011917530.86384-100000@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> In-Reply-To: <19991201194522.A5515@petra.hos.u-szeged.hu>
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On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Szilveszter Adam wrote: >Also I do not >find it to be a good idea if a user gets the idea that a GUI is part of >the OS. IMHO It is not (although I saw the differing opinions on /. >recently) and it never was until M$ put their WM in kernel mode "for >performance reasons". Here in Hungary almost everybody started off using DOS >and Win 3.x so they do not have this disbelief and are much less offended by >the command line. In fact Norton Commander and its DOS clones are the >favorite File Managers even on Win98 systems today here. So while having a >GUI is nice to start with, it is not essential. If you are prepared what to >expect than you will not find this a problem. I did grow to like CLI so much >that I do not leave it whole day long but only to see picture files or to >start up the Real Player which does not have CL mode:-( I'm starting to agree. I love GUIs and there are many jobs that can't be done any other way. But we should HAVE to have them. I find i always open an Xterm because i get WAY more done with Midnight Commander than i do with any GUI file manager. But i think advancing users should be comfortable with both. Yes, i love nice looking GUIs and i usually start mine right up before doing anything else. But then i open an Xterm and go to work... >No, it is not. It is a matter of having "users" in the /etc/fstab entries >for floppy drives etc by default. the icons can be installed later:-) I know >that this Actually, it's a little different in BSD, admittedly a bit of an annoyance. I wish it were as easy as an fstab entry. But it would be nice if there were a way after installing to integrate KDE or Gnome into the system more. I think Mandrake Linux has it right in this area. -jm To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message
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