Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Jan 23, 2013 at 09:54:17AM +0000, Darac Marjal wrote:
chime in with a reminder that dselect is considered discouraged these
days. It's spiritual successor (a TUI interface to apt) is now aptitude.
That depends on who you ask. For newbies, I certainly wouldn't recommend
dselect, but if they wanted to use it I certainly wouldn't discourage
them from doing so. In fact, if they can get their head around dselect,
then anything else that is thrown at them will probably seem like a
piece of cake.
As to the overall Linux market there are at least two
distinct classes of "newbies".
There is the class who is targeted by the Canonical (cf
Microsoft) mentality - Big Brother knows best.
There is class who wants the best from his system.
"BEST" is not a simple one dimensional parameter.
When I was in school a strong emphasis was placed on "first
principles".
I think Debian could benefit from that outlook.
I.E. Use the intuitive/user friendly/simple/simplistic
interface(s) when appropriate.
But know hat goes on "under the hood".
I'll follow the later route. I started my transition from
Windows to Linux over two years ago. I could have had a
system up in a day. But I don't see how it would have been
significantly better/???? than (insert your least favorite
OS implementation here).
I'll continue to pursue the "back to basics" route.
I do not wish to discourage pointing newbies to most modern
tools. BUT please point them to the fundamentals.
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