Thread: Windows Versus Linux : Whats the "Reality"

Originally Posted by Elysia

Sure, you have to remember something, but some find it easier to remember click here and here instead of remembering the exact text to type. I guess it just have to do with memory. Some are visual learners. They find it easier to remember where to click in a GUI where you're presented with the information before your eyes.

For your information, I fall into this group too, which is why I dislike Linux (but Android is another matter).

Elysia, how do you do this with a GUI?

Code:

find . -type f ! -iname "*.cpp" ! -iname "*.h" -delete

Or this

Code:

ack '[[:space:],(*][a-zA-Z0-9_]+<[a-zA-Z0-9, ]+>'
| sed 's/\(.*[[:space:],(*]\)\([a-zA-Z0-9_]\+\)\(<[a-zA-Z0-9, ]\+>.*\)/\2/'
| sort | uniq

CLIs are also radically faster than GUIs in my experience.

I'm still gonna say it, I think combining the two is one of the better ideas. Use the GUI to aid the CLI and vice versa. I think as standalone solutions they both suck.

Originally Posted by Elysia

If you can remember exactly what to type...

If you use the BASH shell in Linux, you can use tab to auto-complete and if there's more than one possibility, you can double-tap the tab key and it'll list all possibilities. It makes not remembering this very easy and completing long commands with long paths very simple.

This is one in which the CLI has improved but it would be awesome if there was a GUI telling you about that tip because it's not obvious.

Most of the commands are super easy to remember though.

cp = copy
mkdir = make directory
rm = remove
mv = move
cd = change directory

Ever get stuck or can't remember? Type : "<command> --help" and usually there's a bunch of useful info printed out.

Edit : Even better, we could design a customizable GUI full of a user's helpful notes. They can make notes about useful commands, tips, tricks, stuff like that. That way using the CLI would have a nice GUI background for doing things as well.

It's time, Elysia. Let's design our own operating system! I mean, how hard could it be, right?

What commands are hard to remember?

Sure, you usually have to google if there is a command but once you use it, I find it pretty easy to remember most commands.

rsync = remote sync
find = find
grep = search files 'n' stuffs

Maybe I've just been living in a Linux bubble for too long now and everything just feels like second nature to me now. My perspective might be skewed.

Originally Posted by Elysia

If you can remember exactly what to type...

Originally Posted by Elysia

That's not the problem. The problem is remembering the commands and what arguments to use.

Ahh Learning, Ahh

Originally Posted by MutantJohn

Maybe I've just been living in a Linux bubble for too long now and everything just feels like second nature to me now. My perspective might be skewed.

Yes. Once you've learned >100, you don't even hardly realise it. And for each one you learn, it becomes that much more infuriating to use Windows, heh.

Originally Posted by phantomotap

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I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if dozens of voices suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced. I fear a terrible post has happened.

Originally Posted by phantomotap

You are as bad as Elysia...

That hurts, man. There are some things you just don't say.

Originally Posted by spaghetticode

OT: Since I don't like Ubuntu I am not used to or aware of the possibilities of Unity, but KDE actually has a setting to avoid that. If enabled, it just turns the cursor pad off when typing on the keyboard. Yes, you guessed right: I <3 KDE. :-)
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I'm totally fine with people preferring Windows, but it just doesn't hold true anymore that Linux is unusable or too complicated for an 'average user' (for whatever that next meaningless phrase is supposed to describe).

I was able to disable the cursor pad with Ubuntu, thanks, that does make things easier. It looks like Ubuntu is a KDE desktop. I see that you can download the GNOME desktop for Ubuntu in Ubuntu's Software Centre.