Thread: Noobs should use terminal!
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DaveP1 is offline DaveP1
2009-12-02 , 23:48
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Originally Posted by nowave7 View Post
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.
True, there are a few instances where you need to go to the terminal level but I haven't used Windows terminal in months if not years (except for a batch file I have on my desktop to do a forced shutdown). With Windows, at least, almost everything you need to do has been GUI-fied and stuck somewhere in the Control Panel.

I started in DOS, I know DOS, and I don't want to go back.