Linked by Richard Wareham on Mon 8th Mar 2004 20:49 UTC
This essay describes the surprising results of a brief trial with a group of new computer users about the relative ease of the command line interface versus the GUIs now omnipresent in computer interfaces. It comes from practical experience I have of teaching computing to complete beginners or newbies as computer power-users often term them.
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These http://www.applefritter.com/ui/aux/images/cmdo-ls.gif">shell in the A/UX GUI looks like something I would have always loved.
Just double-click on a command like 'ls' and it gives a window of options. Select options and it shows you the command line it builds. Much better than 'man' for learning, IMO.
(If that link doesn't work, it's halfway down page 3 of this "about A/UX".)
http://www.applefritter.com/ui/aux/index.html