Thread: Noobs should use terminal!
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gidoca is offline gidoca
2009-12-04 , 21:49
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#51
Originally Posted by DaveP1 View Post
Absolutely. Windoze has GUI programs for all sorts of functions which will allow you to brick your computer. The advantage of them is that they will warn you that you probably don't want to do certain things, they will provide help functions to explain what can and should be done, the will edit input to help avoid fat finger syndrome, and the better ones will allow you to preview or review and undo changes.
In fact, there are far too many of those messages of the type "If you unselect updates, they won't get installed" in Windoze, so people stop reading them and just click OK, which makes them useless.

Originally Posted by DaveP1 View Post
After all, you can do things like word processing without a GUI. But would you want to?
It's obvious that not too many people would want that. The point is, you can use LyX to write a document, but still automatically generate documents on a server without needing Adobe Illustrator on it.