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#17
Originally Posted by RevdKathy View Post
Thank you to all in this thread. My first ever venture into X-terminal - I got the information I wanted and I don;t think I harmed My Mo in the slightest.

*Feeling very proud of myself*
Congratulations.

For many tasks, terminal commands are the fastest and easiest ways to get the job done. Although it is trivially easy to do damage with a terminal command, it is really not that hard to use it without adverse effect.

On the other hand, I am in constant fear of messing something up with a slip of the finger in maemo 5. I think GUIs are great, and maemo 5 pretty good. But I think it is far too easy in maemo 5 to tell the n900 to do the wrong thing, even when I've remembered the right invisible obscure gesture to make, but don't quite execute it correctly.