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Poorman 07-02-2002 09:37 PM

Command Line vs GUI
 
Which is everyones preference?

:newbie:

Poorman

trickykid 07-02-2002 09:52 PM

Command for about everything except the eye candy, when I want to look at my desktop and tired of just text and lines..

bubba169 07-02-2002 11:28 PM

GUI for most of the time, because that is what I've become used to with Windows. I have started using text line some but I've just started using Linux around Easter of this year. I'm real new to Linux and dont know many of the commands yet, but I'm working on it.

Bubba169

Rum 07-03-2002 02:06 AM

cant live without both of them simultaneously.
When I feel lazy I will use gui, and when I am
active I can use the command line.

RefriedBean 07-03-2002 02:18 AM

GUI with 8 Eterms open at the same time. :)
Does that count?

RefriedBean

Brion 07-03-2002 05:56 AM

system configuration and filemanagement => console
all the rest => KDE3 :)

gusgorman 07-03-2002 07:52 AM

command line only.
quicker, easier.

Half_Elf 07-04-2002 02:02 AM

I use command line for ALL install (except those who need X of course) and config

I use X for fun, chat, internet or other useless stuff. The Command line is for important thing, I don't need X to edit some files or to compile files.

I'm also running few server on a little P120 and of course it is too old for GUI, so I do all this only with command line. I like IRC in text mode, it's... funny :)

eggs 07-04-2002 02:15 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by RefriedBean
GUI with 8 Eterms open at the same time. :)
Does that count?

I'm the same way hehe (even use Eterm :p)

zLinuxz 07-04-2002 02:17 AM

somewhere I've heard, that the real power of Linux only lies in the Command line, and the command line alone...

Syncrm 07-06-2002 01:45 PM

X should only be for internet browsing, chatting, and anything else that requires more than 16 colors. :-)

i actually use my linux network primarily from work, where i ssh in and have no choice but to use command line. i could install VNC, but thus far i haven't had the need.

at home, i use X for internet browsing and chatting. whenever i'm working on anything else i'll have a few terminals open or be in another tty.

i don't even like emacs in X. :-)

zeky 07-06-2002 01:51 PM

Gui (fvwm2) and a lot of xterms open! Btw... fvwm2 loads in 2 seconds on Celeron 933 ;)

pickledbeans 07-06-2002 02:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by zLinuxz
somewhere I've heard, that the real power of Linux only lies in the Command line, and the command line alone...
It's not just Linux it's any *nix flavor.
99% of what you learn on Linuz at the command line applys to ALL *nix flavors, inlcuding shell scripting, awk, sed, network configuation, file mangement.... you name it.

If short if your goal is to become a *nix SA then you have
to learn to work at the command line.

mrGee 07-06-2002 04:19 PM

about 60 % console; much quicker, heck i even use links for
some internetbrowsing :)

for graph work X, mostly in XFce like rendering or pcb design
i use KDE mostly to impress and to promote linux to M$ victims

Mara 07-06-2002 05:33 PM

Mostly console. But also rxvt (many copies) in GUI.


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