Thread: Noobs should use terminal!
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DaveP1 is offline DaveP1
2009-12-02 , 23:25
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Originally Posted by nowave7 View Post
Users new to Linux should use terminal only on desktop system, and only if they want to learn about the OS itself. If they just want to use it, most mainstream distros are very user friendly, and there really is no need for noobs to use terminal.
On the other hand, noobs most definitely should not use terminal on their tablets!
I don't ever want to have to use the terminal. The whole point of a GUI is to get away from having to type everything. With a well written GUI, once it is installed, you should be able to do anything without going to whatever terminal is called in whatever OS you are using.
 

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