Re: terminal only for two weeks

Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> writes:

Also, running a command line through a GUI terminal emulator lets you take
advantage of cut/copy/paste between windows, which is a feature not
available on a pure-command-line system.

The command line is like language.  The GUI is like shopping.

Turns out, lots of my highly educated friends aren't all that good
with language. :-o

A windowing system is not in itself what most people mean by GUI and
is, yes, a huge leap forward over plain command-line terminals.

I do use a GUI browser and, occasionally, a GUI image editing device.
I can imagine that audio/video editing my work best in a full GUI.

But my default is a simple window manager (twm) on top of X with
numerous xterms open or iconified, some running things like dmesg -w,
one with root access etc.

I took one look, long ago, at Windows 95 and moved straight to Linux.
Took one look at KDE (shopping) and found twm.

FWIW,
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Mike Spencer                  Nova Scotia, Canada