On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 18:09 +0100, Remco wrote: > On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 4:32 PM, Alan Pope <a...@popey.com> wrote: > > It is. Maybe we should go through the wiki doing a global replace of > > "apt-get install" with "click apt://" :) (note for the humour > > impaired, this is not a serious suggestion, but you get the idea). > > I may be humour impaired, but that sounds like a good idea! Why make > it hard if there is an easier way? The command line is used way too > much by the community trying to help the newbies. I think there should > be a big change in this attitude. Wherever I come, I try to tell > people of the graphical way to do it, when a CLI-way is presented. The > CLI is for power users. It's usually faster (and certainly easier to > type by the helping community), but it requires more pre-existing > knowledge about the actions you're trying to complete. A GUI can be > explored and learned as you go.
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