Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2002 19:23:32 -0400 From: "Brian T. Schellenberger" <bts@babbleon.org> To: "Grant Cooper" <grant.cooper@nucleus.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Administrators - GUI's or Command lines Message-ID: <200207211923.32828.bts@babbleon.org> In-Reply-To: <004101c2310b$8029f5b0$2afececd@TCOOPER> References: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0207211655310.17593-100000@otter.mills-atl.com> <004101c2310b$8029f5b0$2afececd@TCOOPER>
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On Sunday 21 July 2002 07:08 pm, Grant Cooper wrote:
| quick question for the admins, do you guys perfer to work out of a GUI such
| as KDE or just from freeBSD CLI(command line interface)?
That's a little ambiguous. I, for one, Like to use a GUI on my "main screen"
just so that I can have editor windows up and shells up at the same time and
see the one while working in the other.
I don't like using GUI *tools* for anything. So I use a GUI, but within the
GUI I strictly use the CLI (shell), not the GUI tools.
Did you mean "do you prefer a GUI environment vs. a console" or
"do you prefer GUI tools vs. command-line tools"?
PS: I'm not really an administrator, so I don't technically qualify the answer
the question. Also, there is a little bit of a lie; there are two GUI tools
I use: a full-screen editor is, let's face it, a big improvement over a
line-oriented editor. I'll take vi over ed any old day of the week. And,
for reasons I can't entirely explain, I really like very GUI mail programs.
Go figure. But I stick with terminal-window tools for reading news and all
system-administration functions and everything to do with my job. I really
dislike things like "WYSIWYG" word processors, and much prefer LaTeX. So I'm
about as much as a stick-in-the-mud as you're likely to find for everything
but mail.
Why, then, do I run KDE of all things (and really love it)? I dunno. Color
me inconsistent.
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