Re: Screw Linux, I'm going back to Windows!

From: John (spam@spammail.com)
Date: 09/11/02 

From: John <spam@spammail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 23:19:57 -0400

In article <d0ssnuk59r9pioi3furi65kuqp6hp5qsoq@4ax.com>, use@reply.to
says...
> anything like that. so I presume GUI is my best option. actually,
> that's a question I've been wanting answered...who mainly uses the
> console? people running servers and the like, as I mentioned?
> or does using the console teach you how things work at a lower level,
> better than the GUI?
>

When you mean console, I assume you are talking about Non-Gui stuff, I.e
a shell.

There are lots of reasons why people use shell (like bash, tcsh etc.)
One main reason is to execute shell scripts. Also in order to compile
software that is distributed in source form, most of them require you to
go into bash, execute tar, execute make etc.

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