Re: what's wrong with a GUI?

Actually, it is not all Linux distros.  Lindows (opps.. Linspire now),
has a method to install software easily.  As for the Linux GUI being
better than Windows, I would not exactly agree on that.

Give Linux another year or two and they will have caught up with
Windows we have today (as long as they stick with a GUI and not
multiples).  But, by that time, Microsoft will have propelled
themselves light years ahead with the release of Longhorn and it will
take Linux years more to catch up again..

Rocky Moore
http://www.RockyMoore.com

--- In padnug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Justin Collum <justin@xxxx> wrote:
> This is a related topic to my source control post. Plus I've been 
> playing with Linux. The two together have made me wonder:
> 
> Why are programmers afraid of GUIs? Linux especially. In some respects 
> the Linux GUI is better than windows. But to install a program you have 
> to go to the command line 9 times out of 10. Why? This is silly. People 
> think Linux can compete with Windows? Not for 95% of people in the 
> world. How many typical computer users even know how to get the command 
> line in Windows?
> 
> I'm sure this will change, but I think there is an underlying ethos in 
> Linux that won't let developers give up that command line. There seems 
> to be a feeling that if you don't use the command line you aren't a
real 
> programmer or something.
> 
> -- Justin