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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If the CLI supported by design moving deleted files into a directory called "trash" or "garbage" and gave you commands like "empty trash" and "undel /all" (or unrm --all), that would make exploration very friendly.
But I don't know how overwrite safety might work... File versions? ('vi important.txt;1' to edit version 1?)