Thread: Noobs should use terminal!
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2009-12-02 , 23:31
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Originally Posted by DaveP1 View Post
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.
And you indeed may never, ever use the terminal, but as an ordinary user. For more advanced users terminal is still the place to be(even on Windows).
The thing is in the approach. Some of the things you will never be able to do in GUI, say shell scripting. It's just two different concepts.
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