Thread: A faster N810??
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2009-07-02 , 00:50
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#55
Originally Posted by ioioio View Post
Ideally, you should never have to go into the command line for any system or application settings (the only exceptions I can think of is writing scripts) Firstly, it's not user friendly and is going to turn off 80% of non-geeks.
The counter argument is that you don't want to overwhelm exactly that part of the audience with too many options which they have no hope/interest of understanding in the first place. Example: type "/sbin/sysctl -a" into a shell session on your tablet (that's just a small subset of the "system" settings). Do we really need a GUI that can set all those options? Who is going to support those 80% of non-geeks when they fiddle with it and break their system in various ways?
 

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