[lug] GUI support, can I help you?

bill ehlert bill_ehlert at yahoo.com
Sat Oct 27 15:02:09 MDT 2001



--- "Timothy C. Klein" <teece at silverklein.net>
wrote:
  . . .
> The problem with Windows and Mac is that they
> have gone completely GUI,
> or recognition, in many cases.  The expert is
> often hampered by this,
> the newbie is usually helped by this, though. 
> Unix is usually the other
> way, the expert user feels very at home, and
> has great power, but the
> newbie is completely lost.  The best goal for
> Linux would be to give the
> new user the ease of use for the most common
> tasks that is present in
> the GUI world.

**    **PLUS**  a well-thought-out path
    along which the newbie could migrate
    in the general direction of "expert" !

           -- a longtime lurker and linux-
        puzzled (apparently-)perepetual
        newbie 


  But at the same time, the
> expert tools
> of the CLI should remain completely viable.
> 
> Just some random thoughts,
> 
> Tim






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