Even then, I could have used GEdit to alter my menu.lst file and I could have used one of the third-party installers to enable MP3/DVD suppport. Ya' know, I haven't had to use the CLI for anything since Dapper. Linux OSes, with the possible exception of gOS, are all extremely user unfriendly and the Terminal plays a much larger role in that than the comparative lack of hardware support. We're faced with the Terminal every ten minutes when using Ubuntu. "I don't want to use the command line" is not a lame reason, it's the best reason why people won't use Linux. What's with all the people all of a sudden thinking that all the CLI-related dismissals are lame? Windows and OSX allow the average user to do everything he'd want on a day-to-day basis via GUIs. "I do not want the CLI" is as far as I am concerned kind of spurious because there are Linux distributions in which you use the CLI about as often as you do in Windows. Of course, I do use the CLI from time to time, but not because I have to but because I find some things easier to do from there. I am running Ubuntu 7.10, used SuSe Linux 10.0 (I believe) before that, and used the CLI for doing maintenance jobs only, and then but rarely and more because I found doing so kind of easier. With all respect: what distribution of Linux and what version are you talking about? (.) "I don't want to use the command line" is not a lame reason, it's the best reason why people won't use Linux. PDAs, cellphones, videogames and all other sorts of electronic paraphernalia all dispense the use of command lines unless you're doing a maintenance job on them. Windows and OSX allow the average user to do everything he'd want on a day-to-day basis via GUIs. That's how outside people see Linux, and they have a point. Don't blame people for preferring Volkswagen when you're selling them junk with F1 potential. If we had to compare OSes to cars, Windows would be stick shift, OS X would be an automatic and Linux would be a dual-shift Lada which you buy in pieces and need to assemble. Your example seems to be based on the assumption that everyone is born knowing how to drive a Windows PC or a Mac. (ok lame example, but you know what I mean) It's like owning a car, unless you know how to work under the hood it will slowly break down into a pile of junk. I have no doubt that Linux has the potential to be absolutely superior to windows.but only if you know how to manipulate it. I know that you have much more control over your machine if you can work your own scripts on it, but the average Joe is absolutely right to want a GUI.
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