On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:28:06PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > > > > that is a good idea. however, i have another thread about making a > symlink, but all the responses involve real 1980s command solutions. > which, while fully capable of doing, i refuse to. when my friends see > this, they will laugh at a system which requires you to open a terminal > just to make a link (and rightly so). It takes longer to open a terminal > than it takes to right click > > I'm sure the responses will be "this is linux, if you don't like it use > windows' and 'its free what do you expect' and 'linux is all about > terminal' ...these excuses just don't get old. It's 2007
Right clicking requires that I take my hands off the keyboard, find the mouse, figure out where to point it, find the mouse button, rememer if its one click or two... Ctrl-Alt-F1 is almost instantaneous. If you refuse to use a terminal at some point you will be forced to reinstall from scratch when X or your WM/DTE dies. Sounds like windows. Or maybe the *buntus (don't know, haven't use either). What will you do when your graphics card fries and you have to hook up a serial console or ssh in? I know: put in a new card, X won't work with the config for the old card, so you'll have to reinstall... Hope you made a backup. We will not say "its free what do you expect". First, you missed a comma. Second, it goes agains the whole philosophy of the free/open software movement. Its too bad the debian-instller team made an installer that runs X from the outset and gives a DTE straight off on the i386 and amd64 platforms. The old bootfloppies from Woody provided a self-screening tool. Anyone who got it installed, configured mail, and got online, knew enough not to complain about a CLI and new that a mouse was best used for xeyes. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
