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Robin Menneer wrote: > > If using Ubuntu means that I have to use the command line, I going back > to Tiger. There's absolutely no reason why ordinary packages cannot be > produced without the need for thickies to use the command line. Ubuntu have put a lot of work into common "use cases" of computers; "Writing CDs", "sending/receiving emails", and the like, to make sure these tasks are easy, and don't require too much "know how". I don't know if they got rid of the command line entirely from all of their "use cases", but I don't see why they shouldn't have. Afraid I don't use Ubuntu, but the main command line stuff I do on my Debian box at home is running "apt-get" and friends (and debugging stuff), because I hate all the GUIs for package selection. Not that there aren't GUI tools that do the job, and some do a better job than the command line in looking after people (i.e. pull in recommended packages), but I've just got into the habit of doing it that way.
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