Re: Re: desktop enviornment
By: Access Denied to Chris on Sun Aug 11 2013 22:20:52
Ch>> What's nice is we will always have a full fledged terminal/shell for
Ch>> those of us comfortable with it while some of the desktop geared
Ch>> distros are bringing it closer to where newcomers don't ever need to
Ch>> touch a command line. Not sure if we are quite there yet, but it's
Ch>> gotten better.
AD> Sure. Some distros like Ubuntu, Sabayon, SuSE and others you really don't
AD> have to use the command line if you don't want to. Though even when using
AD> any of those, I prefer to install things with a command line package
AD> manager. I will never trust the GUI ones as much as I do watching
AD> everything happen on the command line.
I think the GUI tools work just fine. And in the *nix spirit of using and
building on top of existing tools, I wouldn't be surprised if the GUI tools are
actually calling the command-line tools behind the scenes. They'd have to work
the same way at any rate.
Back when I started seriously using Linux around 12 years ago, I would fiddle
with the command-line configuration tools for quite a while but didn't have
much luck getting things to work. Getting XFree to work was particularly bad -
I'd often have a hard time getting the graphics to work properly, and when it
did, it would still not be centered properly or wouldn't work at the highest
resolution supported by my hardware, etc.. SuSE was the first distro I used
where I was able to get XFree to work properly, due to the configuration tools
provided by SuSE. I think things have gotten better since then though, as it's
a lot easier to get things working in Linux these days.
Nightfox
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